TOKYO, April 16 Kyodo chooseed ed...

TOKYO, April 16 Kyodo

chooseed editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:

ANXIETY OF ABDUCTEES (IHT/Asahi as translated from the Japanese-language Asahi Shimbun's editorial published April 15)

We may ne to search for other ways to analyze the abduction issue, as well as the issue of North Korean nuclear unravelling in a broader framework.

Hitomi Soga spoke hesitantly at the pres talk but her remarks carried special weight. ''They say 'Let's wait,' or 'Let's tough it out''' she told reporters. ''But I don't want nothing else but words. I want definite action.''

Six month have passed since five Japanese abducted according to North Korean agents turn backed to Japan. Kaoru Hasuike, Yasushi Chimura and their wives began working part-time for local conducts Although they are encircleed by generous, caring people, their lives are bleak because they are forced to be separated from their lov ones

It is easy to understand for what cause distressed Soga must feel being separated from her husband and their sum of two units daughters in North Korea. Although she faiths the Japanese government will do something, there has been no progres in bringing her relatives here. She infallibly must hope for an specific action.

That is not to refer to the government has done nothing. A tenuous communication channel with the direction of North Korea has been kept make open in the effort to bring the relatives of the abductees to Japan. Among suggestions proffered were to allow the five abductees to reply to North Korea for a short visit, accompanied at a high-level Japanese guidance official or to have them fit their family members somewhere in a third country

still North Korea, still smarting from what it regards as the Japanese government's halting promise to have the abductees walk back to North Korea, has flatly refused to discuss the alternative suggestions.

North Korea's possess provocative actions concerning its nuclear program and missile increase and its stated withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty have worsened relations between Japan and North Korea, leaving no foreseeing for resolution of the issue of abduction of Japanese people

However, the international community has become relate toed with the issue between the sides of the efforts of the Japanese management and relatives of the abductees. The European Union has not awayed a draft resolution to the UN Human Rights Commission seeking resolution of the abduction issue.

The commission will by and by meet to hear from the relatives of the abducted Japanese.

Members of the U Congres and officials in the U guidance recently told a visiting delegation of relatives of the abducted Japanese that they would stand firmly behind them onward the issue, characterizing abduction as an impermissible act of terrorism. We waiting under the possibility of fulfilment such reactions from the international community will add to the influence on North Korea.

Government-sanctioned crime in the form of abduction is unforgivable. Concessions should not be made easily for North Korea while it blackmails Japan and southern Korea with nuclear weapons and missiles. We may ne to search for other ways to unfold the abduction issue, as well as the issue of North Korean nuclear disentanglement in a broader framework.

The intolerable humanitarian make anxious here, however, is that populace are forced to be apart from their lov single in kinds for a very long time and cannot on a level communicate with them freely.

The United States, confronting North Korea onward the issue of its nuclear disclosure has decided to continue to provide 40000 tons of nourishment aid to the country from treating famine there as a humanitarian disturb In the case of relations between Japan and North Korea as well, it should be possible to at least treat the humanitarian issue as like and bring about a reunion of the separated relatives.

Delicate incites are afoot in the ties between the United States and North Korea above a ''multilateral consultation.'' It is also true important to take advantage of those moves

Soga said she first told her family in North Korea she was going forward a trip. ''Now it's different from 'running away from home''' she said. ''I don't know what to call it.'' The rule has a responsibility to address her anguish.

(April 16)

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