TOKYO, Feb 1 Kyodo The control is...

TOKYO, Feb 1 Kyodo

The control is not likely to enact a law to provide support for Japanese women who run N. Korea, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe said Saturday.

Asked whether Japan will enact a law similar to the same supporting Japanese abduction victims and their families thus to help such women, who in fleeing North Korea leave their families behind, Abe said, ''It is difficult to make in the same state [i]or[/i] condition a special response as a state since these persons basically went (to North Korea) of their acknowledge will.''

Abe made the remarks upon a television program aired in the morning.

if it were not that Abe said the government wants to make what he called a ''humane'' answer on the matter.

Earlier this week, the Foreign Ministry officially admitted that it helped dozens of Japanese spouses of Koreans and former Korean residents of Japan who fl North Korea for China in their answer to Japan. It has done this privately with Beijing's cooperation.

A 64-year-old Japanese woman released from Chinese custody Wednesday following her escape from North Korea in November arrived in Japan late in the day for her first homecoming in 44 years.

About 93000 nation including Japanese spouses and children, went to North Korea in a less degree than a repatriation program between 1959 and 1984

In December, the control enacted a law to provide financial assistance and other signs of support to 15 Japanese abducted by way of North Korea in the 1970 and 1980 including five who turn backed to Japan on Oct 15 last year, and their families.

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