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After years of deni
N. Korean leader admits Japanese were abdii
PYONGYANG, North Korea
(AP) — In an astonishing conces
sion, North Korean leader Kim
Jong II admitted Tuesday that
North Korean spies abducted
about a dozen Japanese decades
ago and said at least four were
still alive.
The turnaround — after years
of angry denials — opened the
door for the two estranged neigh
bors to reopen talks to establish
diplomatic ties, and could signal a
change in North Korea’s often
hostile approach to relations with
the outside world.
But the news was shattering
for those who learned their sons
and daughters were lost to them
forever.
“Never in my dreams did I
imagine this would be the result,
said Kayoko Arimoto. whose
daughter Keiko vanished in 1983
at age 23 while studying in
Europe and is now dead.
Kim made the revelation dur
ing a landmark summit with
Japanese Prime Minister
Junichiro Koizumi at which he
promised North Korea would
continue to freeze missile-test fir
ings and asked Tokyo to relay to
the United States a willingness
for dialogue, including accepting
inspections of suspected nuclear
weapons programs.
For his part. Koizumi
expressed remorse over the suf
fering his nation caused the
Korean people before and during
World War II and promised to
discuss economic aid in the nor-
malization talks, set to start next
month.
Japan colonized the Korean
Peninsula from 1910 to 1945 and
RUSSIA
CHINA
NORTH
KOREA
JAPAN
Japan, North Korea
agree to talk
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro
•Koizumi and North Korean leader Kim
Jong II met in Pyongyang, North
Korea, on Tuesday in a one-day
summit The two nations have never
had diplomatic relations belore but
agreed to resume talks in October
toward establishing them.
► North
Korea will
continue a
moratorium
on missile
firing
through
2003 and
will allow
nuclear
inspections
by the Inter
national
Atomic
Energy
Agency.
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forced thousands of Koreans to
work in Japanese mines aixl ship
yards and serve as sex slaves for
Japanese soldiers. North Korea s
demand for compensation for the
atrocities had been another stick
ing point in talks between the two
nations. Japan has ruled out such
compensation and offered aid
instead.
But the issue of the abductions
was the one most closely watched
by the Japanese public at the
summit. Japan and North Korea
have never had diplomatic rela
tions. and normalization talks that
began in 1991 fell apart twx> years
ago. primarily over the kidnap
pings. .
Displaying an openness previ
ously unseen from the isolated
communist state. Kim admitted
that North Kiwean agents had kid-
naf>pcd the Japane* r
197(>s and early l%fiu
North's spies in
guage and cuiturt an:
spies to assume their iz
Kim s.ud at least fee
kidnapping victims at
Jajvuiese police war
ami his nation ssaspnar
them return to Japar
11 and two other i
Japanese were confere
“This will nesr
again," Kim wasqaee:.
by a Japanese Forrf
official. "It is rrgrrrj'
apologize sincerely*
In a statement, Vr
promised to help ih
meet w ith their fartNie
“necessary steps tc
return home or visit hr
tow ns if ibev wish
In search for Columbus, researdi
think they exhumed his brothe
MADRID. Spain (AP) — Researchers dug up
remains thought to be the brother of Christopher
Columbus on Tuesday in the first step of a high-
tech project to end a dispute over where the
explorer himself is buried.
Workers broke ground at a garden beside a
Seville-area ceramics factory where the brother.
Diego Columbus, is thought to have been buried
for the past decade.
The workers pulled out a corroded zinc box
about the size of a suitcase, sliced it open with
metal cutters and pulled back the top to reveal
brown bone fragments, several of which appeared
to be ribs.
The project calls for extraction of DNA from
the bones and the remains of other Columbus fam
ily members. Those results would then be com
pared to DNA from two sets of remains both pur
ported to be those of Cristobal Colon, as
Christopher Columbus is known in Spanish.
One set is buried in an ornate tomb at the cathe
dral in Seville. The other is in a monument in
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Matching Diego’s DNA to that of
C Inistopher s would also help determine if they
had the same Genovese mother and father, as tra
ditional theory holds, or just the same father.
Another theory says the men shared only their
mother and that Christopher was bom on the
Spanish island of Mallorca, not in Italy, and was
the illegitimate son of a Spanish prince.
Tuesday s disinterment was only a preliminary
step, and a final resolution could be months or
years away if it comes at all. But lead researcher
Marctal Castro was exited nevertheless.
"We now have the first piece of the puzzle," he
said from Seville
Castro and Sergio Algarradi.
teachers in the Seville area, have not
mission from church and government or
either Spain or the Dominican Republic
the alleged remains of Christopher atvi
forensic geneticist Jose Antonio Lorente
DNA.
And the remains of Diego are just pc
solution to the puzzle, and not even ft
strongest card. One problem is they arei
the bones at the factory are Diegos bees*'
those of his older brother, the remains*^
many times.
Diego Colon died in 1515 and wash-
chapel on La Cartuja island in the Gu-sc-
River that runs through Seville. In the 19b
ry a ceramics company acquired the m-
everything on it. including the chapel*
remains.
When it moved the factory to a town
Seville in the 1990s. the company tookalor
was left of Diego Colon. The skull had be
ing since the 1950s after it was removed:
ical research.
Assuming Castro's team wins pen 111 '
open both graves claimed to hold therefl"
Christopher Columbus and DNA can be e'-
the most valuable tool for locating the erf
grave will be the remains of Hernando
Columbus’ son through an extramarital a *
Hernando’s remains are the only aut c|
ones of a close relative of Christopher Co-
Castro says. They are buried at the cat ?•
Seville, along with the bones that Spam •
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