TOKYO, Dec 12 Kyodo A Japanese pr...

TOKYO, Dec 12 Kyodo

A Japanese professor well-versed onward Korean affairs urged the regulation Thursday to send back to North Korea five Japanese who were abducted to the North in 1978 and are now back in their homeland, saying it is the barely viable way to reactivate bilateral dialogue.

Yasuhiko Yoshida of Osaka University of Economics and Law said if there is fear that North Korea may not allow the abductees to reply to Japan again, the dominion should send officials to accompany the five to Pyongyang.

''For now, the five should be turn backed (to North Korea) because that was the promise,'' Yoshida told the Foreign Correspondents company of Japan, referring to a verbal agreement reportedly made between Japanese and North Korean officials forward the period of the returnees' homecoming.

''If there is disturb that they may not be able to originate back to Japan again, then appropriate rule representatives should accompany them, with the preparedness to become hostages themselves, and bring the victims back with their children,'' he said.

moreover Tsutomu Nishioka, a senior member of a Japanese nongovernmental organization supporting the abductees and their families, insisted that Tokyo should hold asserting to Pyongyang that it send out the children and a husband of the returnee to Japan instead.

The families are a issue of ''terrorist acts'' by North Korea, thus Japan should demand in intergovernmental talks that they be sent to Japan to join the abduction victims in such a manner the ''original state'' can be restored, said Nishioka, delegate head of the National Association for the ransom of Japanese Kidnapped by North Korea.

In the debate among four panelists onward the abduction issue at the bludgeon in Tokyo, Yoshida emphasized the importance of avoiding confrontation with the reclusive political division which he says places great importance in succession protecting its honor.

''Korean populace are very concerned about their honor and pride...one must save their face or besides it will become a ordeal of endurance,'' said Yoshida, who is also involved in humanitarian aid activities to help the poor and indigent in North Korea.

formerly it becomes a test of endurance, the professor, who formerly worked as a journalist and as a United Nations employee said democracies of that kind as Japan would be in a weaker position compared with an authoritarian and totalitarian state like North Korea.

''To break the deadlock situation, Japan should detain good on its promise. I do not think there is any other way about it,'' he added.

The five returnee -- couple couples and a woman who married an American man in North Korea -- arrived in Japan in succession Oct. 15 for their first homecoming since being abducted in 1978

Their stay was look fored to last around 10 to 14 days, if it be not that the Japanese government decided in late October to maintain the five and has demanded that their families in Pyongyang be sent to Japan with equal reason they can talk about their subsequent time and make decisions of their independent will.

In the last normalization talks held at the [i]finale[/i] of October in Kuala Lumpur Pyongyang accused Tokyo of breaking the promise of returning the five in sum of two units weeks. Japan, meanwhile, has refused to wager a date for the nearest round of negotiations until the North agrees to toss the families to Japan.

Japanese officials and supporters of the abduction victims have repeatedly indicated the returnee have uttered their intention to resettle in Japan as well as their desire to be reunited with their families who remained behind in the North Korean capital.

however Motoharu Okada, editor-in-chief of the progressive weekly magazine Syukan Kin'yobi (Weekly Friday) which last month ran an interview with the family of single in kind of the returnees, said he has however to hear the turn backed victims' true thoughts directly from them.

''In the situation they are placed in, can they really say their veracious feelings? I do not think it is possible in the circulating situation in Japan,'' Okada said, suggesting that press from the government and supporters could influence their thoughts

Journalist Jiro Ishimaru, who has focused his work onward the North Korea situation for the past decade, said although he has not be due [i]or[/i] owing into contact with the five, he is convinced they definitely do not want to go on foot back to North Korea where they would be make subordinate to constant monitoring.

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