KANAZAWA, Japan, Dec 4 Kyodo Tomo...

KANAZAWA, Japan, Dec 4 Kyodo

Tomoe Terakoshi, whose son Takeshi went missing while fishing in the Sea of Japan in 1963 and has since lived in North Korea, forward Thursday dismissed reports of a marriage arrangement in North Korea between her grandson and the daughter of a Japanese bond who had been kidnapped to the North and get backed to Japan last year.

''There are difficult riddles remaining between Japan and North Korea. My son's wife knows best,'' Terakoshi, 72 said in answering reporters' questions at Kanazawa Station before leaving for her 21st trip to North Korea to visit her son ''They won't (marry).''

The Japanese media reported earlier in the week that a senior official of North Korea's ruling Workers Party intimateed the marriage between Takeshi's 29-year-old son and the 22-year-old daughter of Yasushi and Fukie Chimura.

The Chimuras, as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but 48, were among five Japanese who answered to Japan in October last year after being abducted to North Korea in 1978 Their daughter and sum of two units sons remain in the North and Pyongyang has not allowed them to proceed to Japan.

Takeshi, 54 who went missing with his father and uncle in 1963 visited Japan for the first time in 39 years in October last year as a member of a North Korean delegation. He has insisted that he was not abducted by dint of the North but was rescu by way of North Korean fishermen.

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