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showchinmono
Try to imagine your beloved child suddenly disappeared and you found out later he/she was kidnapped by a hostile neighbor nation. This thug nation says “your daughter went insane and committed suicide” and returned the remains of someone else. Your beloved child always at risk being actually killed for thug nation to make their fake story real. Your beloved kids are hostage of that thug nation which would easily go insane, ruled by a mad man who wouldn’t mind sacrificing the nation’s entire people for his own regime.
So what can you do? What should you do? Sucking to whoever who has more hope is just NOTHING.
philly1
It establishes a climate of fear. It's a form of terrorism. Though these things happened in the past--even too long ago for some to care about--the threat that it might happen again remains and is ever present.
showchinmono
Everytime this NK's abduction topic comes up, Just amazed with the fact this many posters in this forum are so indifferent.
In order to rescue the victims avoiding the possible worst case scenario, sucking up to whoever or whichever countries that has power is definitely the best option now matter how badly you guys keep laughing at Japan and Japanese PMs. So just carry on. Japan should save it's pride for the revenge later on.
showchinmono
It is very easy to imagine what would US do if they were US citizens. It is much easier what would Russia would have already done if they were Russian citizens.
Kenji Fujimori
That's good news, bring back these people. Obama never did anything
zurcronium
Duh. Go to war over an issue from the 1970s? Have thousands die over 17 or less?
The whole issue is contrived by Abe to manipulate public opinion. Trump, dim as he may be, knows it and you can see he feels he its doing something stupid. But Abe asked so he had to say yes.
macv
Gambare DPRK never give in to these snakes
Cogito Ergo Sum
The Japanese approach to this issue leaves a lot to be desired. Being a hot potato as the leaders make us believe, You'd think they would repeat the "Koizumi doctrine" of engaging straight with Kim, but it is obvious they can't look him in the eye..hence the need to ask everybody to " gang-stalk" NK.
lincolnman
He then added; "mark my words, mark my words".....
Then the entire audience let out a long sigh....so much for that promise....
Madden
I don't get it though, what advantage does the North have in keeping them? It's likely they've long since died and the survivors were already brought back. I suppose some official closure might be nice, but there's little advantage for the North to give an official statement in the matter.
Ganbare Japan!
Thank you Trump. Its a comfort to know Trump has Japans back on the abductee issue.
Lets hope the PM Abe-Chairman Kim Summit is soon, possibly after the PM Abe-Iran Summit.
lucabrasi
@Yubaru
It’s not the chair that’s the problem. It’s all those long, difficult words that the people around him are using....
Serrano
This issue will never be solved.
Probably not as long as the Kim Dynasty continues. It could be ended quickly with a war, but that's not what anyone wants.
Yubaru
They could have given Trump a chair that he could actually fit in. He looks awfully uncomfortable sitting there in this picture!
MrHeisei
Abe is eager to resolve the issue during his time in office.
hmm... so what exactly has he done about it? Is Japan really so helpless that it needs to suck up to Trump to handle this?
I really wish that Japan will wake up and kick these old useless bureaucrats out when the election happens, but I think we all know that’s not going to happen.
Bintaro
This read like the same article as one or two years ago.
Only lip-service as always This issue will never be solved.