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Je cree un nouveau topic car le sujet est légèrement différent et il va sans doute y avoir pas mal d'articles.

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Suite à la visite du PM Koizumi, les discussions ont abouti et la Corée du Nord a accédé à la demande du Japon de laisser les familles des 5 Japonais enlevés autrefois par des espions, rejoindre leurs parents au Japon.

Les 5 enfants des deux couples Hasuike et Chimura sont revenus, mais pour famille de mme SOUGA Hitomi, le problème est que son mari risque de se faire expulser du Japon puisqu'il a en effet deserté l'armée Américaine. Les 2 filles et le mari vont donc se rendre a Beijing pour rencontrer Mme Soga. Le Japon avait demandé la clémence des autorités militaires américaines pour Mr Jenkins, mais apparemment la demande n'avait pas abouti.

Rappelons que les enfants des 5 n'ont pas vu leur famille depuis octobre 2002 et pour la plupart, ignoraient meme que leurs parents étaient Japonais. On peut se demander ce qu'on leur a dit sur la "disparition" de leurs parents, qui ne sont pas rentrés après 15 jours comme prévu, lors de leur voyage au Japon en octobre 2002. Cela dit, il semblerait qu'ils vivaient tous plus ou moins loin de leurs parents, en pensionnat, et il me semble avoir lu qu'ils ne les voyaient que 2 fois par an.
De plus, ces enfants ne parlent absolument pas Japonais et doivent tout ignorer du Japon...

Que vont-ils devenir ? Les media ne manqueront pas de tenter de nous montrer leur évolution...

Effet immédiat de ce voyage : le Japon va débloquer des aides pour la Corée du Nord.
Il faut aussi penser aux conséquences politiques de ce coup de maître pour Koizumi : sa carrière est sauvée pour un moment, et il est sûr de regagner en popularité avec cette affaire qui touche énormément l'opinion...


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Saturday May 22, 9:40 PM

2ND LD: 5 sons and daughters reunited with parents in Tokyo

(EDS: RECASTING WITH DEVELOPMENTS INVOLVING 5 SONS AND DAUGHTERS CHILDREN WHO ARRIVED IN TOKYO)
Five sons and daughters of four of the repatriated Japanese abductees arrived Saturday in Tokyo to be reunited with their parents for the first time in 19 months.

After arriving at Haneda airport from Pyongyang at around 9:15 p.m., the five disembarked from a Japanese government plan and boarded a bus where their parents were waiting for them.

The bus then followed Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's motorcade to a Tokyo hotel, where they are scheduled to spend the night.

The five are Yasushi and Fukie Chimura's 22-year-old daughter O Kyong Ae and their two sons, O Kyong Sok, 20, and O Kyong Ho, 16, and Kaoru and Yukiko Hasuike's 22-year-old daughter Pak Yong Hwa and their 19-year-old son Pak Ki Hyok.

The five, all born in North Korea, have been separated from their parents since October 2002 when the two couples and another abductee returned to Japan for the first time since being abducted to the North in two incidents in 1978.

At the hotel, Koizumi, who returned to Japan earlier following his one-day trip to Pyongyang for talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, met with the five repatriated abductees to explain about the summit meeting.

Charles Jenkins, the American husband of the other returnee Hitomi Soga, refused to go to Japan, along with their daughters Mika, 20, and Belinda, 18, despite Koizumi's attempts to persuade him.

Jenkins, a former U.S. Army sergeant listed as a deserter, is concerned he may be pursued by U.S. military authorities if he comes to Japan.

Source : http://asia.news.yahoo.com/040522/kyodo/d82nlgfo3.html



5 children of former abductees head to Japan

The five children of two former abductee couples left for Japan on Saturday evening to be reunited with their families tonight, government officials said.

The decision was made after summit talks between Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang on Saturday.

Koizumi and Kim also agreed that Tokyo and Pyongyang will jointly conduct thorough investigations into the whereabouts of 10 missing abductees, some of whom Pyongyang claims have died.

The three children of Yasushi Chimura, and his wife, Fukie, and the two children of Kaoru Hasuike, and his wife, Yukiko, will come together on a government plane to Japan. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is returning on a different government plane.

Former abductee Hitomi Soga's husband and their two daughters are expected to travel to Beijing and meet with her there before deciding on whether they will come to Japan.

Following the summit talks, Koizumi met with Soga's husband, former U.S. solider Charles Robert Jenkins, for about an hour in a bid to persuade him to come to Japan. However, Jenkins told Koizumi that he cannot travel to Japan because he is afraid that the U.S. government might demand that he be extradited in order to prosecute him for desertion during the Korean War.

Koizumi and Kim held their second summit meeting for about 90 minutes until 12:35 p.m. at North Korea's guesthouse on the outskirts of Pyongyang, 20 months after their first summit talks in September 2002.

Koizumi decided to resume stalled bilateral talks aimed at normalizing diplomatic relations and pledged to extend 250,000 tons of foodstuffs and 1.1 billion yen worth of pharmaceutical products as humanitarian aid to North Korea.

Koizumi demanded that North Korea completely rid itself of nuclear weapons. In response, Kim pledged to make efforts toward a peaceful resolution to the matter at six-nation consultations between Japan, South and North Korea, China, the United States and Russia.

Moreover, Koizumi assured Kim that Japan will not impose economic sanctions against North Korea in view of the spirit of the Pyongyang Declaration that the two leaders signed in the previous summit meeting. (Mainichi Shimbun, Japan, May 22, 2004)

Source : http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20040522p2a00m0dm009003c.html