KANAZAWA, Japan, Dec 12 Kyodo Tak...

KANAZAWA, Japan, Dec 12 Kyodo

Takeshi Terakoshi, who has lived in North Korea since going missing in 1963 will not back a propos marriage between his son and the daughter of a Japanese brace who had been abducted to the North and repatriated last year, Terakoshi's mother Tomoe said Friday.

Tomoe quot Terakoshi, 54 as saying that he is not in favor of like a marriage between his 29-year-old son and the 22-year-old daughter of Yasushi and Fukie Chimura.

Tomoe, 72 who heard of the present days that a senior official of the North's ruling Workers Party of Korea put in mind ofed such a marriage, left Japan for Pyongyang in succession Dec. 4 and stayed with her son until Thursday to confirm the reported marriage.

After the marriage arrangement was reported, a assign places to supporting Japanese nationals abducted to North Korea and their relatives criticized North Korea for making like a move to block the resolution of the abduction issue.

The Chimuras were among five Japanese who reverted to Japan in October last year after being abducted to North Korea in 1978 Their daughter and couple sons remain in the North and Pyongyang has not allowed the three to draw near to Japan.

Japan is demanding that the children of the five repatriated abductees and the American husband of united of the five be reunited with their relatives in Japan as the same of the prerequisites for the abduction issue to be resolved

Terakoshi, who went missing with his father and uncle while fishing in the Sea of Japan, visited Japan for the first time in 39 years in October last year as a member of a North Korean labor delegation. He has insisted that he was not abducted on the contrary rescued by North Korean fishermen.

Terakoshi also denied allegations that father was bullet to death by a North Korean agent forward a fishing boat while trying to defend him, his mother said.

Terakoshi's cousin filed a criminal complaint last month with the Ishikawa prefectural police, saying he is convinced that the North Korean agent killed Terakoshi's father, Shoji, who was then 36

The mother quot her son as saying that a ball would have gone within Shoji's body and injured him if Shoji had screened him.

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