Did Kim Yo Jong offer to accept Kishida's visit to North Korea on the condition that the abductions issue would not become a stumbling block? Here's...
A former North Korean diplomat who defected to South Korea in 2016, PPP lawmaker Tae Young-ho has committed to accounting for the North's abductions victims.
At the event, abductee Megumi Yokota's brother Takuya Yokota called the North Korean abductions issue "a battle for lives that we cannot afford to lose."
Kaoru Hasuike, who was freed 21 years ago, tells young Japanese that North Korea "will not [have]...a bright future without resolving the abductions issue."
Longtime scholar of Korean Peninsula issues, Professor Tsutomu Nishioka analyzes the challenges and progress in relations between Japan and South Korea.
Japan must channel this international momentum. North Korea will not budge unless Japan makes a concerted effort to resolve the abductions problem.
This renewed international effort to find a true resolution to the abductions issue comes after PM Kishida made a new offer on the issue on May...
The prime minister emphasized that, in resolving the abductions, he is ready for "direct, high-level talks" that would pave the way for a meeting with Kim.
Only top-level negotiations backed by pressure from the United States and other international communities will break the deadlock.
Much of North Korean diplomacy seems to be done ad-hoc. “It is person-based,” said Swedish Ambassador Jonas Michael Wendel in an online symposium in the UN....
This 2nd prize-winning student essay from 2021 explains why the blue ribbon campaign is an effective way to get people to talk about the abduction of...
This support shows even in small gestures, like wearing blue ribbons — the symbol of hope for the return of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea...