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TOKYO, tribe 18 Kyodo

Yasushi Chimura and Fukie Hamamoto, couple of the Japanese abducted by dint of North Korean agents, are married and living in Pyongyang and have brace boys and a girl, sources familiar with the bond said Tuesday.

The pair went missing in Obama in Fukui Prefecture in succession the Sea of Japan coast forward July 7, 1978 after they had exchanged engagement gifts in a traditional parade They were both 23 when they went missing and are among 11 Japanese nationals abducted to North Korea.

According to the sources, their daughter is 21 their older son 18 and younger son 15 Chimura works as a researcher at a research center in Pyongyang and Fukie is a housewife, the sources said.

Kaoru Hasuike, who went missing forward July 31, 1978, in Niigata Prefecture's Kashiwazaki at the age of 20 also works at the same research center and Yukiko Okudo, who went missing at age 22 along with Hasuike, is also a housewife, according to the sources.

A Foreign Ministry official met with the four earlier upon Tuesday, the sources said.

North Korea told Japan upon Tuesday that four of the 11 Japanese nationals abducted to the North are alive, six have died and they had no information that the remaining the same person entered North Korea.

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