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  gonemad at 08:01 PM JST - 30th October

  Japan is really behaving like a bull in a china shop. In this way, the abduction issue will never be solved. But that's obviously what certain politicians in the LDP want to happen, keeping it alive and using it as a platform to spread their nationalistic drivel.

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  pointofview at 08:52 PM JST - 30th October

  As I said before "Practice what you preach."

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  OssanULTRA at 09:55 PM JST - 30th October

  Unless Kim dies and a new regime is prepared to change relations with the world NKorea isn't going to divulge the information about their intelligence operations that would be exposed in a real serious investigation of the abductions.

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  jeancolmar at 11:47 PM JST - 30th October

  ‘What is important is whether we can generate enough pressure to make North Korea really feel troubled’’: Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Iwao Uruma.

  If the recent past is of any value, the answer is no. No Japan cannot generate enough pressure on North Korea to resolve the abduction issue, if an issue still exists. This is to say that there is no way to force North Korea to reveal any abductees that were not allowed back into Japan after Koizumi's visit or to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that all the other abductees are dead. North Korea does not work that way. It does respond to negotiations, peace feelers and bribes. That worked when Koizumi visited North Korea and met the Kim Jong Il. Something similar might work again.

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  ptolemy at 02:19 AM JST - 31st October

  The LDP should have begun to solve this 20 years ago. Another reason the LDP is worthless and a sham. Where was all the great political pressure from the blow-hard politicos then? From Nakasone to Koizumi nothing was done. Koizumi tried, I'll give that. Abe gave stern words and stalled the 6 nation talks, and Nobita-kun (Fukuda) really said nothing much. Aso is going to be too concerned with keeping Japan a float. The DPRK is going to thumb its nose and nothing will be done, and the LDP knows it can't doing anything of substance.

  That is the classic response of Kim Jong Il and his late pops, "So, what are you going to do about it? Next!"

  The DPRK got one goal accomplished already, getting removed from the US Terror List, a list with as much importance as my to do list.

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  pointofview at 12:15 PM JST - 31st October

  They`ll just get whatever they want/need from China.

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  elbudamexicano at 08:01 PM JST - 31st October

  The DPRK (The Democratic People's Republic of Korea) as is the official name of this country, not North Korea will only listen to countries that know can kick their asses inside and out. The US,etc..so if Japan really wants the DPRK to feel some presure, maybe they need to ask the USA and maybe China, but for China, they don't need any more starving people from the DPRK trying to enter their country.

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  Shumatsu_Samurai at 08:54 AM JST - 2nd November

  It does respond to negotiations, peace feelers and bribes.

  So, Jean, you think that Japan should send a message that if its citizens are kidnapped the crooks can expect rewards every time? When do you draw the line and say "enough is enough" - never?

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