No one is interested in the issue of past abductions of foreigners by North Korean agents, Song Il Ho, North Korean ambassador in charge of diplomatic normalization with Japan, said Monday. Speaking to reporters in Pyongyang, Song said that an agreement reached between Japan and ...
North Korea has nearly completed a fresh investigation it promised Japan last year into the fates of Japanese citizens allegedly abducted by the country decades ago, according to a senior North Korean diplomat. "What is obvious is that (North Korea) has conducted the investigation in ...
Japan is planning to send government officials to North Korea to learn details about its investigations into the fates of Japanese nationals abducted by Pyongyang, government sources said Tuesday. "Even if we dispatch (officials to North Korea), there would probably be no risk," one source ...
North Korea has become open to discussing the abduction issue with Japan again and the two countries agreed Monday in Beijing to carry on with governmental talks. During the first formal negotiations in more than a year, Japan appears to have demanded North Korea reinvestigate ...
At their first formal talks since November 2012, senior Japanese and North Korean diplomats on Sunday agreed to work toward settling "outstanding issues" impeding bilateral ties. The meeting, to end Monday in Beijing, was held amid mixed signals from North Korea over its willingness to ...
