The unification ministry said Monday it will set up two monuments in hopes of the repatriation of five South Koreans who were abducted by North Korea on two southwestern islands in the 1970s.
The families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea decades ago met with senior U.S. government officials, asking them for help getting the victims home as soon as possible.
Kim Yung-ho, South Korea s point man on North Korea, and Julie Turner, the U.S. special envoy for North Korean human rights, plan to make a visit next month to areas where then South Korean teens had been abducted by the North in the 1970s, a Seoul official said Friday.
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