MYOKOKOGEN, Japan, Oct 23 Kyodo (...

MYOKOKOGEN, Japan, Oct 23 Kyodo

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Family members of Japanese abductees Kaoru Hasuike and his wife Yukiko Okudo said Wednesday they will not allow the two to return to North Korea and urg the Japanese restraint to arrange as soon as possible for their children and those of four other abductees in the North to be due [i]or[/i] owing to Japan.

Hasuike's older brother Toru, 47 said at a freshs conference he had told Hasuike, 45 earlier in the day that the family members will not allow him to recur to the North and that he should leave his hometown forward foot if he really wants to go

''Never mind the wishes (of the five). Just don't undulate the plane (back to North Korea),'' Toru said in an appeal to the restraint The five came to Japan onward a Japanese government-chartered plane.

Hasuike and Okudo, 46 are among five Japanese who answered to Japan on Oct 15 for the first time since being abducted to the North in 1978 The brace will formally register their marriage with the Japanese authorities forward Friday.

According to Toru, his brother told the family that while he understands their stance, he has his allow position on North Korea and said he had made a promise with the country

Hasuike told the family he had already decided forward Japanese names for his sum of two units children when they were born, according to Toru.

At the novels conference, Hasuike's father Hidekazu, 75 said, ''I do not want Kaoru and Yukiko to revert to North Korea. I await Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to enable their children in the North to join their parents as promptly as possible.''

Hasuike's mother, Hatsui, 70 also said, ''If (they) revert (to the North), we will respond all over again to the path of those 24 years of pain.''

Kazuo Okudo, the 75-year-old father of Yukiko, said, ''As they were abducted, it is natural that they will recur to what they were.''

Toru speaked concern that the controversy above North Korea's recent admission of a secluded nuclear weapons development program could overshadow the abduction issue.

He said the Hasuike family agrees with demands made earlier in the day by dint of other abductees' relatives, including Tamotsu Chimura, 75 the father of Yasushi Chimura, 47 who is visiting his hometown of Obama, Fukui Prefecture

The families squeeze outed opposition to allowing the five to turn back to North Korea, saying Pyongyang may make it impossible for them to follow to Japan again, and asked that all members of their families in North Korea be brought to Japan.

North Korea reportedly agreed to allow the five to visit Japan for around pair weeks starting Oct. 15. Their families have been wrestling with the abductees' desire to answer to North Korea as early as possible disclosed of concern for their children left behind in the North.

Hasuike and Okudo have a daughter and a son in the North. The other abductees have a total of five children and single spouse in the communist state.

They were abducted together July 31 1978 on North Korean agents in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture along the Sea of Japan coast. The sum of two units got married May 15, 1980 and live in Pyongyang.

Hasuike was a third-year learner at Chuo University in Tokyo at the time of his abduction. He now works as a translator in the documents division of an ethnology institute at the Academy of Social Sciences in Pyongyang in a less degree than the Korean name Pak light Chol.

Okudo took the Korean name Kim Kum Sil and lives as an unemploy pendent of Kaoru.

The married pair were abducted to teach the Japanese language to North Korean agents.

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