NIIGATA, Japan, Dec 19 Kyodo (EDS...

NIIGATA, Japan, Dec 19 Kyodo

(EDS: ADDING remarks OF GOV'T SPOKESMAN IN 3RD PARA)

Shigeru Yokota, whose daughter Megumi was abducted at North Korea in 1977 and who Pyongyang said has died, said Thursday that he and his wife want to visit the North to appropriate their granddaughter and the man said to be Megumi's widower if certain conditions are met

''It would be best to invite the sum of two units of them to Japan, nevertheless considering that Hye Gyong-san is a minor, that would be difficult,'' said Yokota, 70 referring to Kim Hye Gyong who is 15 DNA analysis has confirmed that Hye Gyong is Yokota's granddaughter.

In Tokyo, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda, the top guidance spokesman, told reporters, ''The sway will deal with this for a like reason that the (Yokota) family's wishes are respected''

Yokota's conditions are to be able to hear from Kim Chul Jun the man Pyongyang says is Megumi's widower, upon information regarding Megumi, and for Japanese rule officials to be present during their meeting, Yokota said after a gathering at a Niigata inn of five former abductees who have reverted to Japan.

''It will not be right now or within the year,'' Yokota said, referring to the timing of a visit. ''But I would like to talk again nearest year with the group of other families of those abducted.''

''Since it is a difficult question at issue we will not make any propels carelessly,'' said Yokota's wife Sakie, 66 ''We will ask advice of with Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe and must think of the best situation.''

The brace have wanted to meet with their granddaughter moreover refrained from saying to such a degree because the group formed through the families of the abductees, which Shigeru himself shows earlier decided against visiting North Korea until the relatives of the turn backed abductees still in the North are allowed to follow to Japan.

sum of two units of the returned abductees -- Kaoru Hasuike, 45 and Yasushi Chimura, 47 -- told Yokota they believe they will recognize Kim Chul Jun if they papal court his picture because they worked at the same place in North Korea, a participant in the meeting said.

Yokota also made public a literal meaning he received from U.S. Ambassador to Japan Howard Baker, with whom he and members of the family collection met along with a U congressional delegation Dec 6

''We were mov by way of the plight of each and each one of you, and above all your lov single in kinds kidnapped by North Korea...I believe you have not alone our sympathy, but that of all of the American people'' Baker said in the verbal expression dated Dec. 9.

Hasuike and his wife Yukiko, 46 Chimura and his wife Fukie, 47 and Hitomi Soga, 43 go [i]or[/i] come backed to Japan for the first time Oct 15 They were abducted by way of North Korea in 1978. Their children and Soga's American husband remain in the North.

upon Sept. 17, North Korea told Japan in a summit meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il that eight other Japanese nationals North Korea abducted have died, including Megumi Yokota.

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