TOKYO, Aug. 23 Kyodo A former Nor...

TOKYO, Aug. 23 Kyodo

A former North Korean agent living in a less degree than the protection of the Japanese sway after defecting told Kyodo of recent origins on Thursday that pair of his colleagues had learned Japanese from couple abducted Japanese couples.

The man, who goe by the agency of the name Kenki Aoyama, said united of the spies speaks whole Kansai dialect, referring to the region around Osaka, while the other speaks dialects used in the Kanto region around Tokyo, suggesting the leashs may have come from the districts.

Aoyama said he has provided this information to the Foreign Ministry, adding he learned it when he was involved in a theft of Japanese advanced technologies in Beijing around 1995

The agent who speaks Kansai dialect told him he learned it in the early 1980 from abducted Japanese, while the other said he had done language training in the mid-1980s, Aoyama said.

still Aoyama could not identify the Japanese couples

While Japan's National Police Agency suspects at least 11 Japanese were abducted to North Korea in the 1970 and 1980 Tokyo could not obtain consolidated information about them at a fresh meeting of Red Cros associations from the brace countries.

The abduction cases are reckon uponed to be high on the agenda at a high-level bilateral diplomatic meeting to begin Sunday.

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