Meeting on alleged abduction of Japanese by N. Korea

Meeting on alleged abduction of Japanese by N. Korea

OMU, Japan - Yuko Kitakoshi (R), whose father and three brothers may have been abducted by North Korean agents in the 1960s, and Teruaki Masumoto (2nd from L), secretary general of the Association of the Families of Victims Kidnapped by North Korea, are among participants in a meeting held in the town of Omu, Hokkaido, on June 4, 2014, by the Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to N. Korea.

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