[HCDX] Japan starts radio broadcasts to North Korea on abduction issue

["Zacharias Liangas " <greekdx@xxxxxxxxx>]

 Japan starts radio broadcasts to North Korea on abduction issue
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/09/asia/AS-GEN-Japan-NKorea-
Radio.php


TOKYO: Japan began making propaganda radio broadcasts in North 
Korea about international affairs Monday intended to reach out to 
Japanese abductees living in the communist country.

The hour-long programs on short-wave radio ? 30 minutes each in 
Korean and Japanese ? will be repeated daily for a week before being 
updated, the Cabinet Office said in a statement.

The government broadcasts come as Tokyo steps up pressure on 
Pyongyang over its former abduction of Japanese citizens to train 
communist spies in Japanese language and customs. North Korea has 
admitted taking 13 Japanese, and in 2002 it released five to return 
home, saying the remaining eight had died.

But the issue remains a sore spot because the Japanese government 
believes those eight may still be alive, and suspects more of its citizens 
may have been abducted. The dispute has stymied attempts to 
establish diplomatic relations between the neighboring nations.

The new broadcasts are meant to cheer up any surviving abductees in 
North Korea with music, voices of relatives back home and reports on 
international affairs and relations between Japan and North Korea.

The Cabinet Office said it was not releasing the time of the broadcasts 
or their radio frequency in order to avoid having the signal jammed by 
North Korean authorities.



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