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North Korea: Still Not Pardoned

AP reports that the five kidnapped Japanese will stay in Japan and not return to North Korea as originally planned. A member of the Japanese Government announced that they wouldn't be returning, and went on to say that it was indispensable and urgent that North Korea return the children of those kidnapped as well. The North Korean Foreign Ministry is apparently a bit miffed that the Japanese are taking them at their word (don't they know it's no good?) that the abductees and their children can return permanently to Japan if they choose. I hope Japan holds onto their outrage over the kidnapping long enough to reunite the families, and that Jimmy Carter doesn't butt his nose in.