Visiting U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday met with family members of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korean agents and pledged to work together with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to bring them back to Japan.
Trump and his wife, Melania, accompanied by Abe and his wife, Akie, met 14 family members of those kidnapped by Pyongyang in the 1970s and 1980s, at the State Guest House in Tokyo’s Akasaka district.
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