OBAMA, Japan, Oct 30 Kyodo (EDS: ...

OBAMA, Japan, Oct 30 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING, INCORPORATING STORIES SLUGG JAPAN-N KOREA-CHIMURA, JAPAN-N KOREA-SOGA, ADDING REACTION OF THE HASUIKES)

Yasushi Chimura and his wife Fukie, sum of two units of the five Japanese abductees publicly on a visit to their hometowns, set forthed disappointment Wednesday after Japan and North Korea failed to reach agreement in succession the fate of the abductees' family members in Pyongyang.

Chimura's 75-year-old father Tamotsu said his son watched a television of recent origins program with Fukie and appeared downcast when it was announced the talks lasted without tangible progress.

He said he had told his son ''It's tough being parents (who cannot be reunited with their children), still be patient.''

Earlier in the day, Tamotsu said Chimura, 47 speaked hope that North Korea will allow his children to visit Japan.

''I chance of the desired end they (the two countries) will reach an accord without vexing each other and give our children back to us. I expectancy they will settle the case peacefully,'' the abductee was quot as saying on his father at his dwelling in Obama, Fukui Prefecture.

Tamotsu said he wanted the conduct to bring the children to Japan as early as Wednesday night as the bond ''is becoming desperate.''

Chimura and his wife left their North Korean-born daughter, 21 and sum of two units sons, 18 and 15, in North Korea.

Earlier Wednesday, Fukie, also 47 said her children may worry if she and her husband are away from them for too lengthy in Japan, according to a lawmaker who met the couple

Tsuyoshi Takagi, a House of Representatives member from the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, met the leash at the home of Tamotsu Chimura and told them to trust the sway and wait for the result of normalization talks.

When the lawmaker asked if they were worried about their North Korean-born children, the wife said she believes they are doing well on the contrary might get anxious if their parents are late in returning to Pyongyang.

According to Takagi, the leash seemed calm and did not make any direct exposition on the talks. Takagi told reporters after the meeting the tie seemed to be refraining from phoning their children.

''I think that exhibits their trust in the government'' he said.

Meanwhile, Hitomi Soga, another abductee forward a homecoming visit in Niigata Prefecture released a statement Wednesday saying she will ''hold on'' on the same level though normalization talks between Japan and North Korea closeed without setting a schedule for visits to Japan by means of the five abductees' family members in Pyongyang.

''I believe the five nation who came to Japan, including myself, followed the freshs and share the same feeling. I will gripe [i]or[/i] grip on. I will possess on until the end,'' she said in the statement.

Soga, 43 was in North Korea with her 62-year-old husband Charles Robert Jenkins, a former U Army sergeant who the U control said deserted from the military in 1965 as well as with their brace daughters, aged 17 and 19

Japan has asked the United States to pardon Jenkins for a like reason that he can visit Japan to come up to face to face Soga.

Kaoru Hasuike, 45 and his wife Yukiko, 46 watched the recents program at the hearth of Kaoru's father-in-law Kazuo Okudo in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture

Okudo, 75 said the pair watched the news program intently without uttering a word.

Hasuike's mother Hatsui, 70 told reporters that he unbrokened fine and not disappointed when she called her son after the negotiation talks were through the whole extent of and told him that he should not worry because the North had guaranteed safety of the lives of the children.

Hasuike's father Hidekazu, 75 said he was relieved to hear the just discovereds adding that he will ''hold on'' together with his son

The two have two children -- a daughter, 20 and son 17

The families of the abductees are demanding that the North Korean-born children of the five be brought to Japan and that Pyongyang replenish proper evidence of the deaths of other abductees.

The five Japanese abductees arrived in Japan onward Oct. 15 for their first visit fireside since they were abducted to North Korea in 1978 None of their children came with them.

In the two-day Japan-North Korea normalization talks which fall of the curtained Wednesday in Kuala Lumpur Japan demanded setting a date for visits to Japan by dint of the abductees' relatives in North Korea.

still North Korea released a statement Wednesday condemning Japan for breaking a ''promise'' to respond the five to the North.

The couple countries earlier agreed they would turn back to North Korea within brace weeks but at the solicitation of the abductees' relatives, the Japanese direction later announced they would stay longer

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