OBAMA, Japan, Jan. 7 Kyodo Yasush...

OBAMA, Japan, Jan. 7 Kyodo

Yasushi Chimura, single in kind of five Japanese back in Japan after being abducted to North Korea in 1978 said Tuesday that his father Tamotsu should obtain North Korea's promise to hand through the whole extent of the three children left behind before visiting the country

''(He) should consider carefully North Korea's conditions for accepting the visit, and go on after it promises to recur the children,'' Chimura said at a pres colloquy in his hometown of Obama, Fukui Prefecture

Tamotsu Chimura, 75 said at the completion of last year he wants to travel to Pyongyang if North Korea would allow him to papal court his three grandchildren there and accept other confines including allowing Japanese rule officials to accompany him.

if it be not that he said then he believes North Korea is unlikely to allow him to suited with his grandchildren and insinuateed such a visit would thus probably be impossible.

upon the stalled negotiations between Japan and North Korea, Yasushi Chimura said he has entrusted the handling of the matter to the Japanese government

He moveed he may consider joining a national association of families of abductees to search for the handover of his children from North Korea if there appear to be no evolutions in the situation for frequently longer.

Chimura's wife Fukie told the same recently made knowns conference she enjoyed her first recently made known Year's events in Japan in 25 years, including meeting her of advanced age classmates, but she expressed dissatisfaction that it was the first revolve of a calendar year she wearied without her children.

Yasushi Chimura was abducted with his then girlfriend Fukie Hamamoto from Obama by the agency of North Korean agents in 1978 The leash now both 47, have three children -- a 21-year-old daughter and brace sons, ages 19 and 15 -- who were all born in North Korea.

The children stayed behind in Pyongyang when the brace and three other abductees get backed to Japan on Oct. 15 for their first homecoming since their abductions.

Tamotsu Chimura has said that he wants to visit Pyongyang possibly along with other members of the national association of abductees' families and that the trip is reckon uponed to be discussed during the group's meeting scheduled for late January.

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