6 Japanese located by North Koreans
TOKYO -- After a string of denials that they had any information on missing Japanese believed by Tokyo to be in North Korea, Red Cross delegates told a visiting Japanese team that they have located six persons.The Associated Press reported from Pyeongyang, however, that none of the 11 Japanese nationals Tokyo claims had been kidnapped by North Korean agents were included in the list.
At the end of a two-day Red Cross meeting in Pyeongyang, Kyodo News also said that the North has agreed to allow Japanese women who emigrated to the North for marriage decades ago to visit their homeland in October.
A trickle of such visits hasbeen allowed since November 1997, and the number of women to be allowed to leave and return this time was not given.
with the Korea JoongAng Daily
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