Japanese abductees' kin urge Kishida to resolve issue as new PM

Family members of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s on Wednesday urged Fumio Kishida, the new president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party who is set to become the next prime minister, to work hard for the swift repatriation of the victims.With little progress on the abductions, the need to resolve the issue has become more urgent in recent years as the victims' family members are aging."I'm not sure how many prime ministers came and went, but nothing has changed," Sakie Yokota, the 85-year-old mother of an abductee, told reporters in Kawasaki near Tokyo.…READ FULL ARTICLE