Ex-head of U.N. panel on DPRK human rights meets abductee kin

TOKYO, Japan - Michael Kirby (R), former chief of a U.N. commission investigating North Korean human rights violations, meets Eriko Yamatani, state minister in charge of the issue of Japanese nationals abducted by Pyongyang agents, at the Cabinet Office in Tokyo on Oct. 21, 2014, shortly before meeting a group of Japanese abductees' relatives.

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