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Tuesday June 12, 10:37 PMArrest warrants eyed for 2 Japanese women in N. Korea over abductions(Kyodo) _ Police have decided to seek arrest warrants on Wednesday for two Japanese women now living in North Korea on suspicion they were involved in the abduction of two Japanese nationals from Europe to the North in 1980, investigative sources said Tuesday.The women are Yoriko Mori, 54, and Sakiko Wakabayashi, 52. Mori is the widow of the leader of Red Army Faction hijackers who forced a Japan Airlines plane to land in North Korea in 1970, while Wakabayashi is the wife of another of the hijackers. Given that the two women are now living in North Korea, the Metropolitan Police Department is planning to place them on an international wanted list after the warrants are issued, the sources said. Both are already on an international wanted list on suspicion of violating the passport law. Mori married Takamaro Tamiya, leader of the hijackers, who died in 1995. Wakabayashi, whose maiden name is Kuroda, is the wife of Moriaki Wakabayashi, 60, who is also on the international wanted list on suspicion of involvement in the hijacking. The police suspect Mori and Wakabayashi took Kaoru Matsuki and Toru Ishioka to North Korea from Madrid around May 1980 having invited them to travel. Matsuki and Ishioka were 26 and 22, respectively, when they went missing. The sources said Japanese investigators found the names of the two suspects in a hotel register in Madrid where Matsuki and Ishioka stayed, and a photo of the two suspects and Ishioka sitting shoulder-to-shoulder on a bench at a zoo in Barcelona. In 2002, the police put on an international wanted list another Red Army Faction member, Kimihiro Uomoto, 59, on suspicion of abducting a Japanese woman, Keiko Arimoto, to North Korea from Denmark in 1983. Matsuki and Ishioka as well as Arimoto are among the 17 Japanese who the Japanese government has formally claimed were abducted to North Korea in the late 1970s and early 1980s. North Korea said the three have already died in the country. |
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