May 19 (UPI) -- The families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea in the late 1970s called for the government to expedite negotiations for their release on Sunday.
More than 1,000 people attended a meeting in Tokyo where they displayed 400 cardboard boxes containing about 13.4 million signatures collected by the Association of Families of Victims Kidnapped by North Korea supporting the effort to encourage Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to meet with North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un for negotiations.