TOKYO, Oct 16 Kyodo The family me...

TOKYO, Oct 16 Kyodo

The family members of Japanese who are reported to have died since being abducted to North Korea in the late 1970 and early 1980 were disappointed Wednesday athwart not being able to obtain helpful information from five abductees who began a temporary homecoming Tuesday.

Speaking at a novels conference held after talks with the five abductees, the members of six families all intimateed dissatisfaction, saying the five accorded to their questions in almost the same manner.

Not barely did the five people have no circulating information regarding the abductees Pyongyang said have died, they also did not say anything negative about North Korea and refrained from talking about issues related to their abductions, the family members said.

''Anything related to politics as well as the abductions was totally repeled They did not know a Korean Air jet was bombed (by North Korean agents in 1987) They did not know about missing Japanese nationals,'' said Shigeo Iizuka, 64 whose sister Yaeko Taguchi was abducted to the North in June 1978 and listed as among the dead abductees through Pyongyang.

''They could not face us directly and all direct the eyeed down. I am happy that they temporary recured but disappointed at their reaction,'' he added.

Teruaki Masumoto, 47 younger brother of Rumiko Masumoto who was abducted in August 1978 and listed among the dead through Pyongyang, asked the five by what means they were abducted from Japan and to what extent they have been treated in North Korea.

He said the barely accounts he was able to earn from them were that the five did not face any violence when they were abducted and thereafter they have been treated politely from North Koreans.

Initially the family members were scheduled to appropriate with the five all at one time but it was decided that each family would have talks separately with Yasushi Chimura, Fukie Hamamoto, Kaoru Hasuike, Yukiko Okudo and Hitomi Soga.

What the five told each family was more or les the same, the family members said.

Hasuike's brother Toru, 47 said, ''Besides the parents of Megumi Yokota, the five at the beginning said they did not want to have talks.''

Toru said he was not assured why the five were merely willing to meet the parents of Yokota, who was abducted to North Korea and reportedly died in the home after having a daughter.

''It assumes the five had a prior agreement what to say,'' the brother said.

on the subject of leaving to Japan Hasuike told his children in North Korea he would be onward a business trip, while his wife Yukiko Okudo told them she would be upon a trip, according to Kaoru.

Toru added that he was advised through his younger brother not to finish involved too much in the abduction issue. Toru said his younger brother spoke as if he was someone in the dominion saying, ''The abduction issue should be resolv and not hinder normalizing ties between the brace countries.''

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