Japan minister presses N. Korea on abduction issue

Japan on Thursday exhorted North Korea to take "concrete action" toward resolving the issue of Pyongyang's abductions of Japanese nationals in the 1970s and 1980s along with its denuclearization.Katsunobu Kato, minister in charge of the abduction issue, made the pitch in remarks at a symposium on the human rights situation in North Korea at the U.N. headquarters in New York.Referring to the upcoming U.S.-North Korea summit, he said, "it is important that the United States raise the issue of abduction and entice action from North Korea.""We must maintain maximum pressure against North Korea"…READ FULL ARTICLE