North Korea is not opposed to a recent request by a group of wanted Japanese hijackers for help to return to Japan, the North's official Korean Central News Agency said Monday.
The former Red Army Faction members, who hijacked a Japan Airlines jetliner to Pyongyang in 1970, sent a letter to the North Korean government in which they "clearly manifested" their wish to return to Japan, according to the report.
The report did not specify when the government received the letter.
The letter states that the members no longer see any need to stay in North Korea, as most of their family members have gone to Japan, according to the report.