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KANAZAWA, Japan, family 22 Kyodo

The son of Shoji Terakoshi, who went missing while fishing at sea in 1963 said Monday he intends to file a criminal complaint with the Ishikawa prefectural police accusing a North Korean agent of murdering his father while attempting to abduct him.

Akio Terakoshi, 53 said he decided to take the action after hearing from An Myong Jin, a former North Korean agent, that the character who killed his father was O Gu Ho an instructor at Kim Jong Il Political and Military University in Pyongyang.

''I want this to lead to the finding of the truth'' Terakoshi said.

Terakoshi, who lives in Ishikawa Prefecture took An to an area along the Sea of Japan coast near where his father went missing at age 36 along with his brother Sotoo, then 24 and their 13-year-old nephew Takeshi, who popularly lives in Pyongyang.

An, who was visiting at the invitation of the Ishikawa chapter of a support form into groups for Japanese abducted to North Korea, said O mentioned in a prelection that he came across a fishing boat in that area, missile an adult dead and abducted an adult and a child.

According to An, who lacked to South Korea in 1993 and has not long ago been providing many revelations about the abductions, O was in charge of training agents in infiltration from the sea in 1988

Terakoshi also plans to charge that O abducted Sotoo and Takeshi and demand that his father's bone be handed over

Takeshi Terakoshi, now 54 insists he was not abducted. Last year, he visited Japan as a member of a North Korean union delegation for his first trip to Japan since going missing with his uncles

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