N. Korea corrects info on suspected abduction victim
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Astana- Tokyo, September 27 KAZINFORM referring to Jiji Press--North Korea has corrected its information about Megumi Yokota, a Japanese citizen suspected to be kidnapped by North Korean agents decades ago, Japanese government officials said Sunday night.
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Many Koreans, while relieved, express concerns about charges that a ransom was paid.
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While the six-party talks are making headway on the North's nuclear weapons, for Japan the more contentious issue is what happened to its citizens kidnapped by the regime
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A senior North Korean official dismissed reports that the secretive country was preparing a missile launch, calling them speculation, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported on Saturday.
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North Korea said Monday last week's  explosion in its remote northeast was part of a hydro-electric  project, the BBC quoted the North's foreign minister as saying.
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South Korea is seeking independent  verification on the nature of a huge blast in North Korea last  week, which its communist neighbor has said was linked to a  hydroelectric scheme, government officials said on Tuesday.
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Turning the tables on Tokyo, North Korea  has called on Japan to investigate the case of one of its  nationals who went missing in 1991 while working in Russia,  saying it presumed Japan had abducted him.
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North Korea will conduct a thorough investigation into the kidnapping of Japanese citizens, a departure from its stand that the divisive issue has been settled, a source with ties to Pyongyang said on Thursday.
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South Korea's intelligence agency says it was behind the 1973 kidnapping of future President Kim Dae-jung.
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Documents and other items submitted to Japan by North Korea concerning the fate of 10 Japanese abductees contained no evidence to support the communist nation&#39;s assertion that eight of the missing are already dead, while the other two never entered the
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A South Korean man was arrested and accused of spying for South Korea and obtaining information from North Korea in return for payments, U.S. officials said on Thursday.
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North Korea has denied reports that portraits of its unpredictable leader have been removed from some public spaces. The reported removals have sparked speculation about changes in the power
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Japan and North Korea held a second day of talks Sunday in a dispute over Japanese nationals abducted by the North decades ago. Japan seized the occasion to express concern North Korea might be planning a missile test, a newspaper reported.
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bones handed over then were not, as Pyongyang claimed, those of the abducted Japanese citizens. &quot;It (North Korea) no longer feels that any DPRK-Japan inter-governmental contact is meaningful,&quot; he added.
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During a week of talks, Pyongyang sticks to its argument on the fate of 10 missing Japanese. Japanese delegates returned from Pyongyang on Monday with what North Korea says are personal belongings of missing
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Japan will make a &quot;strong protest&quot; to North Korea after the communist state fabricated all its evidence about the fate of Japanese whom it kidnapped during the Cold War, victims&#39; relatives said yesterday.
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Although Pyongyang has an abysmal track record on giving a full accounting of the abduction issue, repatriated abductees and North Korean defectors have managed to fill in a few blanks.