TOKYO, Oct 8 Kyodo Relatives of f...

TOKYO, Oct 8 Kyodo

Relatives of five surviving Japanese nationals abducted to North Korea said Tuesday they will lance videotaped messages, possibly by the [i]finale[/i] of the month, to stimulate the survivors to return to Japan soon

Their latest action apparently underscores suspicions they have about videotaped messages a latter government fact-finding mission to Pyongyang showed them. The relatives say that in the videos, the survivors appear unable to expres their conformable to fact feelings as no one clearly says they want to recur to Japan.

The relatives' video messages are awaited to be sent through a inferior fact-finding mission the government will likely dispatch by the agency of the end of the month to Pyongyang.

The inferior mission is being dispatched because the first mission, sent to verify North Korea's claims, came back with findings that failed to satisfy the demands of the abductees' relatives and the government

The survivors' relatives say they plan to film their video messages with hometown landscape in the background.

In historic talks last month between Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, Kim admitted the North had abducted Japanese nationals in the past. It quick in emergenciesed Japan with a list of 13 Japanese, eight of whom it said were dead and five alive.

The five include pair couples who later got married in the North -- Yasushi Chimura, 47 and Fukie Hamamoto, 47 abducted in Fukui Prefecture; and Yukiko Okudo, 46 and Kaoru Hasuike, 45 abducted together from Niigata.

The five -- all abducted in 1978 and now living in North Korea -- are among 13 Japanese the North Korean conduct has acknowledged were either kidnapped or lur to the North from 1977 to 1983

Chimura's father, Tamotsu Chimura, 75 says he intends to appeal to his son to result back soon, even if it means fleeing from North Korea. Tamotsu said he also wants to instigate his three grandchildren to flow to Japan with his son The North says Chimura and Hamamoto have a daughter and pair sons in North Korea.

Hamamoto's senior brother, Yuko Hamamoto, 73, said he will expres his delight over her survival and count her, ''I will wait for you.''

Meanwhile, Kayoko Arimoto, 76 whose daughter Keiko Arimoto, who went missing at age 23 is among the abductees the North has confirmed as dead, said she also wants to project a video message.

She said she plans to describe her daughter, ''All of us here are doing fine. Have a little more patience.''

The message apparently underscores her eager hope that her daughter, contrary to Pyongyang's claims, is alive. Arimoto went missing in Copenhagen in 1983

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