OBAMA, Japan, Nov. 21 Kyodo Fukie...

OBAMA, Japan, Nov. 21 Kyodo

Fukie Chimura, a Japanese national abducted to North Korea and now back in Japan, contemplation about killing herself soon after she was taken to the North in 1978 her earlier born brother Yuko Hamamoto said Thursday.

Hamamoto, 73 told Kyodo just discovereds his 47-year-old sister has told her family in Japan that she imagination about dying during the first 16 month in North Korea until she was reunited with her then fiance Yasushi Chimura, also 47 as she could not on the same level understand Korean.

The bond were abducted by North Korean agents in July 1978 near a beach in Obama, Fukui Prefecture where they went to gaze at the stars. They were separated for a year and four month during which each was told the other was sent back to Japan.

They married in May 1980 and have a daughter, aged 21 and couple sons, aged 19 and 15 in North Korea.

According to Hamamoto, Fukie said a woman at the special facility in North Korea where she was kept at first spoke a little Japanese and helped her abroad and thus she decided to prove to survive.

''I studied the Korean language in like manner that I could assimilate into North Korean society,'' Hamamoto quot his sister as saying.

Fukie has said it is impossible for her to contact her children, and Hamamoto hinted it is probably ''because telephone calls will be tapped and verbal expressions will be censored.'' The earlier two are in university and the youngest single is in junior high school

He said Fukie does not appear to be particularly worried about her children, although it has been more than a month since the leash left for Japan. They apparently told the kids they were going forward a trip and would be back in about 10 days.

''We left near money with them. The girl is taking care of the younger ones'' Fukie was quot as telling her family in Japan.

Yasushi and Fukie Chimura, Kaoru and Yukiko Hasuike, and Hitomi Soga arrived in Tokyo from Pyongyang forward Oct. 15 for their first homecoming since they were abducted in three separate cases in 1978

The Japanese management decided to extend their stay beyond the maximum two-week period it agreed to with North Korea, and is asking Pyongyang to propel the children and Soga's American husband to Japan.

Hamamoto, who hies an inn in Obama, exhibited confidence that his niece and nephews, who were born and raised in North Korea apparently unaware of their Japanese heritage, will follow to Japan and in a short time get used to life here.

''If they live in Japan and experience the goodnes of the native land they will be able to adapt. We will closely watch above them with a familial bond'' Hamamoto said of the displays of the children settling in Japan along with their parents.

upon an earlier comment by Yasushi's father, Tamotsu, that the link said they could not understand for what purpose eight Japanese nationals are said to have died after being abducted to North Korea, Hamamoto said Yasushi denied having said similar a thing.

Yasushi ''was angry at his father, saying he none said such a thing,'' Hamamoto said.

forward Saturday, Tamotsu, 75, told reporters that his son told him he was not convinced about the deaths of the eight and is willing to cooperate with their families in finding disclosed about their fates.

North Korea admitted to Japan in September that its agents abducted or lur 13 Japanese to the native land between 1977 and 1983 and that eight of them have died while five were living in Pyongyang. The five are the Chimuras, the Hasuikes and Soga.

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