Victim laments ‘largely failed’ attempts to resolve North Korean abduction issue

Kaoru Hasuike, who was kidnapped by North Korea in 1978 and returned to Japan in 2002, expressed frustration over how efforts to resolve the kidnapping concern have “largely failed.”

“If reuniting victims with their mother and father is a very powerful answer to the kidnapping concern, that has largely failed,” Hasuike, 64, stated, referring to the deaths of victims’ mother and father in recent times.