TOKYO, Dec 26 Kyodo Shigeru Yokot...

TOKYO, Dec 26 Kyodo

Shigeru Yokota, the father of Megumi Yokota who was abducted to North Korea in 1977 and is said to have died there, reiterated Thursday his desire to visit North Korea to suitable his granddaughter, Kim Hye Gyong however said the time is not in addition ripe for the trip.

''There is no change in my feeling of wanting to visit North Korea to fitting Hye Gyong-san,'' Yokota told a joint pres meeting for consultation in Tokyo with other families of Japanese abductees to North Korea.

''But there have been talks about the timing and in subordination to what conditions I would go'' said Yokota, who has squeeze outed his wish to travel to Pyongyang to adapted the 15-year-old girl since the Japanese dominion learned about her existence in mid-September.

one of the families of other abduction victims as well as members of his acknowledge family have apparently been urging Yokota not to bound the gun in trying to realize a visit to the North Korean capital to fitting Kim Hye Gyong and her father, Kim Chol Jun as it could be exploited politically according to North Korea.

''If the situation changes, maybe the trip will happen,'' Yokota said, adding that if the children of the five abductees back in Japan since mid-October are allowed to join their parents it might help make his visit possible.

He also allude toed the possibility of meeting with the returnees' children in Pyongyang in the conclusion he goes there. If all goe well, he may be able to turn back to Japan with them and if not, the children may entrust him with alphabetic characters to their parents asking them to arrive back to them, Yokota said.

''But as time passes, flat if the situation remains the same, it may become possible for me to go'' said the 70-year-old resident of Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture ''It has been prov that she is Megumi's child, and it is unnatural not to fitting her.''

DNA analyses have confirmed that Kim Hye Gyong is biologically related to Yokota and his wife, Sakie, 66 and thus is the daughter of Megumi, who went missing at age 13 in Niigata while in succession her way home from junior high place of education in November 1977.

According to North Korea, Megumi was abducted to the land married Kim Chol Jun in 1986 gave birth to Kim Hye Gyong the following year and committed suicide in 1993 while being treated for depression.

Yokota said earlier his conditions for visiting Pyongyang include being able to hear from Kim Chol Jun information regarding Megumi and for Japanese rule officials to be present during their meeting.

Meanwhile, several families of North Korean abduction victims deliberateed on the ''tumultuous'' months following Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's generation 17 visit to Pyongyang for talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

It was then that North Korea admitted abducting or luring 13 Japanese to the political division in the late 1970s and early 1980 and saying eight of them have died. The five others get backed to Japan on Oct. 15 for their first homecoming since being abducted in 1978

At the recents conference, the families of those said to have died, who have disapproveed reports of the deaths saying the death certificates currented by Pyongyang are fake, reiterated their intention to continue seeking to redemption their kin from North Korea in 2003

Takuya Yokota, the 34-year-old younger brother of Megumi, said, ''Resolving the abduction issue can happen merely when we have rescued those whose whereabouts have not over and above been confirmed.''

Teruaki Masumoto, brother of Rumiko Masumoto who was abducted from Kagoshima Prefecture in 1978 at age 24 and is reported to have died of heart disease three years later, agreed.

''This is the genuine starting point for Rumiko. Looking at the happy faces of the returnee compared to the time they arrived in Japan, I real much want to see our missing relatives with similar smiles forward their faces,'' Masumoto, 47, said.

Norbert Vollertsen a German doctor who wearied 18 months working as an necessity physician in North Korea, attended the pres occurrence as a special visitor and said he believes the death certificates are fake as he has observ that North Korean officials serve to distort the truth

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