GENEVA – North Korea has not responded to inquiries from a United Nations Human Rights Commission panel investigating the abduction of eight Japanese nationals who, according to Pyongyang, died after they were taken to North Korea.
This information is contained in a report compiled by the commission’s Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance, which reopened the investigation into the missing persons in November.
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