Brother of woman abducted to N. Korea

Brother of woman abducted to N. Korea

GENEVA, Switzerland - Shigeo Iizuka, the head of a group consisting of the families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea decades ago, speaks at a session of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva on March 17, 2014. Iizuka's sister, Yaeko Taguchi, was abducted in 1978 at age 22.

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