Families of N Korea abductees meet Suga ahead of Biden summit

Japan has just renewed ban of exports to NK. What does it expect ? All the truth and the dictator on a plate ?

Suga must be feeling pressure. Trotting out Abe's old stable horse grieving families for political points. There is nothing left to be done. Let them grieve properly and help them accept their loved ones are gone.

Those abducted are either repatriated or dead. The remaining 4; well there are roughly 80,000 missing persons reports in Japan every year. Pretty safe to say they're somewhere in those numbers, not in NK

I feel for the families but pressuring Suga, like all the PM’s before him, to pressure the US into pressuring NK isn’t going to do anything. The US has no more leverage over NK than Japan. That’s the definition of insanity. And I hate to say it, but the abductees are almost certainly dead. Let it go. RIP.

@Jonathan Japan has just renewed ban of exports to NK. What does it expect ? All the truth and the dictator on a plate ?

I totally agree! Well said.

If Koizumi couldn't get anything done what makes them think jello kneed Suga can? Biden can't do anything other than lip service like Lil Bush, Obama, and Trump did before him.

The NK abduction issue has been and continues to be welcomed by every US Administration as it supports the position that NK is a "terrorist state". NK abduction victims are not just Japanese, there are SE Asians, even Europeans on the list with the largest number being South Korean. However the SK voices regarding the NK abdictions are quelled because of the SK govt position towards NK. In Japan of course the abduction is clearly used as a political tool, now more domestic than diplomatic.

One of those issues that are unlikely to ever get resolved to anyone's satisfaction. But will continue, at least until the stand-off relationship between NKorea and Japan changes, if ever. So yes, it's absolutely terrible for the victim families but there is little hope for optimism. At least for now.

Trump met "Kim JonUn three times, has he ever mentioned the Japanese abductors ever once?

Damn NKorea TERRORIST !!..

Open to interpretation, I guess. All authoritarian governments could be said to have a whiff of terror about them.

More sanctions and crush them !!..

Dialogue. The people of the DPRK have been crushed by brutal regimes, starvation and a police state for generations. Crushing them again won't help matters.

Return ALL abducted Japanese or their remains, or ZERO big Japanese investment for NK going forward.

Great to see the US is on the same page as Japan on this issue.

Though I have my sympathies and I can feel the family members of the abducted people this is something that happened over four decades ago,and I think the Biden-Suga meeting should prioritize about the world pandemic and the geo-political threat that China and Russia are posing to the globe.