Korean residents in Japan have expressed dismay at the fate of some of the Japanese nationals abducted to North Korea and at the obscuring of the issue of compensation from Japan for its 1910-1945 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.
The revelation that some Japanese nationals abducted in the 1970s and 1980s have already died came following a historic summit Tuesday between Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.
"I am totally shocked," writer Kim Sok Pom, 76, said as he watched the media reveal that some of the abducted people have died.