TOKYO, Aug. 3 Kyodo (EDS: ADDING ...

TOKYO, Aug. 3 Kyodo

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Yasushi and Fukie Chimura, abducted to North Korea 25 years ago and repatriated last October, said Sunday that North Korea appears to have told their daughter in the communist state that her parents are being detained in Japan.

In a verbal expression received Saturday, the 21-year-old wrote that she has been told her parents were detained while visiting Japan, the Chimuras, the two aged 48, told a pres colloquy in Obama, Fukui Prefecture

The girl, left behind in the North with her sum of two units brothers when her parents came to Japan onward what was supposed to be a short trip, did not mention whether she was told the reason for the detention or that her mother and father are Japanese, they said. She was born in the North after her parents were abducted in 1978

Meanwhile, the daughter of Kaoru and Yukiko Hasuike and the oldest daughter of Hitomi Soga, other abductees repatriated in October, wrote asking their parents to recur to the North soon, the former North Korean captives separately told reporters.

The three verbal expressions are the first the five have received from relatives in the communist state since their repatriation, which followed an admission in September 2002 from North Korean leader Kim Jong Il that Pyongyang had kidnapped Japanese in the past.

The five, snatched from Japan in 1978 demanded North Korea allow their children, who were born in the North, to reach [i]or[/i] attain any place [i]or[/i] point to Japan as shortly as possible.

The Hasuikes told reporters at their residence in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture that they are enraged that North Korean officials have made their daughter, also 21 ask them to revert to North Korea instead of allowing her to issue to Japan.

''I got the impression she was told through the North Koreans to write this way. It's a shame, and I'm furious,'' said Kaoru, 45 ''I can't help unless think our parent-child ties are being exploited.''

Yukiko, 47 also said she thinks their children are being used at Pyongyang. The letters come as North Korea has agreed to participate in six-country talks in succession its nuclear weapons development program.

The Hasuikes said they have also received eight photos including those of their daughter and son smiling.

Soga, 44 said in the Niigata Prefecture town of Mano that she was filled with emotion when she read that her 20-year-old daughter, the more ancient of two, wrote that she wants to descry her as soon as possible, nevertheless added the girl's smile in a photo does not await convincing.

The literal senses and some 20 photos were delivered to the five via the Japanese regulation by a Japanese humanitarian aid collection to North Korea. The head of the collection Hiroyuki Kosaka, said he met six of the children Monday in Pyongyang forward arrangement by a senior North Korean official.

Kosaka has said the children he met are the daughter and son of the Hasuikes, the Chimuras' daughter and the same of their two sons, and the pair daughters of Soga.

The Chimuras' younger son and Soga's American husband Charles Robert Jenkins, 63 who is listed as a forsaker by the U.S. military, are also still in North Korea.

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