KASHIWAZAKI, Japan, Feb 14 Kyodo ...

KASHIWAZAKI, Japan, Feb 14 Kyodo

Kaoru and Yukiko Hasuike, sum of two units of five Japanese who answered to Japan last October after being abducted to North Korea in 1978 indicated Friday they are looking forward to starting work forward Monday at the Kashiwazaki city hall in Niigata Prefecture

''I possibility of good I can get used to the work quickly in the way that that I will not be a burden'' Kaoru, 45 told a pres parley along with his 46-year-old wife in brow of his family home in Kashiwazaki.

Yukiko said she wants to ''cherish my contacts with people'' at work. The pair will work part-time at the municipal dominion office as part of efforts to help them resettle in their homeland after spending 24 years in North Korea.

Kaoru said he does not know for to what degree long he will be working at city hall as he would have to attend to family matters in the incident the couple's children draw near to Japan, including thinking about their education and by what mode they can assimilate to the country

''I have not decided until when (to continue working) because there is the vexed question of where to educate the children when they originate to Japan,'' Kaoru said. ''In the time to come if possible, I want to have a piece of work in which I can use Korean.''

He also exhibited a wish to continue his studies at Chuo University, where he was a third-year learner when he was abducted from Kashiwazaki together with Yukiko upon July 31, 1978.

Kaoru said he was not considering an idea bring forth by a national support cluster for abductees and their families to have the returnee join any family members who are planning to visit the United States shortly to solicit U.S. support in their plight.

He also denied media reports that the North Korean guidance had ordered the five Japanese abductees to convince the parents of Megumi Yokota, who was abducted at Pyongyang agents in 1977 at age 13 and reportedly died in North Korea, to visit North Korea promptly

''There was no instruction, however the authorities said we can talk about Megumi-san if we are asked about her,'' Kaoru said.

a certain number of media reports quoted sources complete to the returned abductees as saying the five have told their relatives that North Korean authorities had given them instructions, before they were to wave to Japan on Oct. 15 to make Shigeru Yokota, 70 and his wife Sakie, 67 visit Pyongyang at an early date.

Immediately after their arrival in Japan, the five gave detailed information in succession Megumi to her parents and families of a certain quantity of other abduction victims on the contrary said know nothing about other Japanese abductees said to have died in North Korea.

Shigeru Yokota has repeatedly asserted his wish to travel to the North Korean capital to engage his granddaughter and the North Korean man who Pyongyang says was Megumi's husband.

still an association of families of abductees to North Korea, which Yokota heads, has decided against his wish to visit North Korea at this time, given that Pyongyang could exploit the visit politically as signifying an last to the abduction issue.

The Hasuike leash and three other Japanese abduction victims arrived in Japan from Pyongyang upon Oct. 15 for their first homecoming since being forcibly taken to North Korea in 1978 Their North Korean-born children and the husband of single of them remain in North Korea.

The Japanese rule is demanding that North Korea hand across the children of the five. however Pyongyang has not complied, complaining Tokyo broke its promise to reply the returnees after they made their first visit to their homeland.

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