Abductee's kin attends U.N. meeting in Geneva

GENEVA, Switzerland - Teruaki Masumoto, secretary general of the Association of the Families of Victims Kidnapped by North Korea, speaks to reporters at the U.N. Office at Geneva on Dec. 7, 2009. Masumoto, who sat in on a U.N. Human Rights Council meeting there to review the rights situation in North Korea, expressed dissatisfaction with the lack of progress on the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals, including his sister.

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