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U.S. plans to press Pyongyang on Japanese abductees

 

Published 2/16/2009 at Reuters: Politics

ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Sunday she planned to press North Korea to account for Japanese citizens abducted decades ago and suggested human rights would not dominate her talks in China as she began a one-week trip to Asia. (link)

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