Panel OKs ministerial order for NHK to focus on reporting abductions

TOKYO, Japan - Telecom minister Yoshihide Suga (C) speaks with reporters at his ministry after his advisory panel endorsed his controversial order for Japan's public broadcaster NHK to focus on the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals in its international shortwave radio broadcasts.

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