TOKYO, Nov. 9 Kyodo sum of two un...

TOKYO, Nov. 9 Kyodo

sum of two units North Korean Red Cross officials who accompanied five Japanese abductees onward a homecoming visit said before leaving Japan forward Saturday that they were completely unable to contact the five in their hometowns in Fukui and Niigata prefectures

Speaking to reporters from Kyodo stranges and other news organizations before their departure, the sum of two units North Koreans voiced dissatisfaction that the Japanese direction had obstructed their ''mission'' to expect after the five during their first visit domicile after being abducted from Pyongyang 24 years ago.

''As we can't contact the five, it is impossible to believe media reports that they are changing their minds (about a permanent return)'' Ri Ho Rim, legate general secretary of North Korea's R Cros Society, said.

Ri said he made a last petition for to the Japanese government as well as the Japanese R Cros before departure to allow him to gain in touch with the five, unless was flatly refused.

Ri denounced the Japanese control saying, ''Tokyo is responsible for overturning an agreement between the sum of two units countries and inhumanely separating the five from their children.''

''We have our obligation to declare the children and relatives of the five about the not past nor future situation after returning to (North Korea),'' Ri said.

The five returnee -- Yasushi and Fukie Chimura, the one and the other 47 and from Fukui Prefecture Kaoru Hasuike, 45 and his wife Yukiko, 46 and Hitomi Soga, 43 from Niigata Prefecture -- have all set forthed their desire to convenient their children left in the North in Japan, after Tokyo announced the five would stay longer at the beg of their relatives in the hometowns.

Ri was initially planning to stay in Japan a week or sum of two units weeks, he said, adding, ''The five also said staying a week is enough and a 10-day stay is the longest''

Ri and Pak Yong Nam have been in Tokyo public-houses after arriving in Japan forward Oct. 15 with the five abductees.

Asked whether they contacted Pyongyang during their stay in Tokyo, Ri said, ''Even nevertheless there was no particular order from Pyongyang, we informed them about the situation at sending faxes.''

''But there's no longer the ne for us to stay here because we can't plane say 'hello' to the five,'' Ri said.

onward the possibility of the children coming to Japan, Ri said, ''We don't think we'll be able to convince them below this kind of circumstance.''

''Our management will provide economic assistance and I don't think there is any enigma in material terms but I worry about psychological aspects,'' Ri said. ''They are likely to be insecure because the Japanese conduct did not return their parents.''

Ri said he is not aware whether the children know that their parents are now in Japan.

Asked about Pyongyang's what may occur hereafter arrangements with the five, Ri said, ''Basically it is up to what Japan is going to do. It is the five's decision to recur to Pyongyang or to stay in Japan, yet we are not able to find not at home what they think in the first place.''

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