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Japan Presses Issue of Kidnapped Citizens

Japan Presses Issue of Kidnapped Citizens

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May 17, 2013
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The new conservative government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is making a new push to try and resolve the decades-long dispute with North Korea over the fate of a dozen Japanese it claims were abducted by North Korean operatives in the 1970s and 1980s and may be still alive.

The issue was not pressed very hard by the previous Democratic Party of Japan (DP…

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