Japan, N Korea discuss abductions

So in other words: absolutely nothing is being accomplished. Business as usual.

I do wish the writers of these articles would omit the statements that they presume "hundreds more people may have been abducted " or as in the last article published on JT they mentioned a figure of 800, this serves no purpose to presume. As the moderator, rightly or wrongly deleted my last comment from a previous article, when all I was trying to do was relate to the annual missing persons figure of a particular group, as provided by the police agency.

It just started to talk. North Korea agreed in May to launch a new probe into the abductions, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has demanded that it expedite that investigation.

JT did not create numbers. Just refreshing previous report. JT did not fabricated numbers. It even hasn't written talks that hasn't said yet.

"but believes hundreds more people may have been abducted and that many of them may still be alive"

Did this group form a bulge in the number of missing persons over a certain time period, the number being significantly smaller before and afterwards? How about the distribution of geographic locations from which they disappeared?

Among the known abducted, it seems many of them were aware of each others existence in North Korea; how much of this kind of evidence is available for these hundreds of others?

Anything is possible but just saying it doesn't automatically make it plausible - the statement really deserves some further clarification.

i think China is pressuring N Korea as currently China and Japan are working to cooperate economically/ N Korea dees not have friendly country right now. It needs food for their people and Japanese sanction against it is not working for N Korea. One step to get Japan to be friendly is honest with abductee problems, Russia already is not concerned with NK as it has big problem in Ukrinne area. Hope families of abductees can meet their family. Otherwise Japan will increase more sanctions and China will give uo NK as China loves S Korea now.