BEIJING, Oct 10 Kyodo North Korea...

BEIJING, Oct 10 Kyodo

North Korea indicated Thursday that it has no plans to allow the children of five kidnapped Japanese to join their parents in Japan unles Tokyo first fling the kidnap victims back to Pyongyang.

In a statement issued ahead of the first anniversary of the turn back of the five Japanese nationals, kidnapped separately to North Korea in 1978 a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman said the way to liquefy the kidnapping issue -- including the go [i]or[/i] come back of the five North Korea-born children of the kidnapped Japanese -- is for their parents to go [i]or[/i] come back to North Korea.

''They must be allowed, together with their family members, to expres their confess wishes in freedom,'' the statement said.

The North Korean sway allowed the five Japanese to answer to Japan on Oct 15 last year forward a ''temporary visit'' and has since charged the Japanese sway of breaking its commitment of returning them to North Korea.

The Foreign Ministry statement, carried at North Korea's state-run Korean Central stranges Agency, accused the Japanese rule of keeping the kidnap victims ''captive'' in Japan.

The five children were born to the kidnap victims after they were married in North Korea.

The parents were among 13 Japanese nationals the North Korean direction acknowledged in September last year had been kidnapped or lur to North Korea in the late 1970 and early 1980 primarily to forward as Japanese language instructors for North Korean spies.

North Korea says the other kidnapped Japanese have died in North Korea.

The Japanese management suspects more Japanese nationals had been abducted to North Korea and has expressed Pyongyang to give a satiated account of the kidnappings and to allow the children of the five Japanese survivors to join their parents in Japan.

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