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Summit between Junichiro Koizumi and Kim Jong-il
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-05-22 14:02
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (L) shakes
hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il as they meet for talks in
Pyongyang May 22, 2004. Koizumi and Kim ended talks after about 90
minutes, as Japanese citizens abducted decades ago waited back in Tokyo to
see if they would be reunited with their relatives still in the communist
state. [Reuters]
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi,
second from left, accompanied by Japanese deputy Foreign Minister Mitoji
Yabunaka, left, talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, second from
right, accompanied by North Korean Vice
Foreign Minister Kang Sok Ju, third from right, during a summit in Pyongyang
Saturday, May 22, 2004. Koizumi and Kim held a quick 90-minute summit to
revive talks on normalizing relations and defuse a standoff over the relatives
of the Japanese citizens kidnapped by Northern agents. The man at right is
unidentified. [AP] |
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