Japan and North Korea are coordinating a working-level meeting around the 10th of next month according to the Japanese media, to discuss the issue of 10 missing Japanese citizens who Tokyo claims were abducted by the North, decades ago.

The Mainichi newspaper is quoting multiple government sources to report that the two countries are pursuing a five-day meeting in August to negotiate details over Pyongyang’s promised reinvestigation into the 10 missing Japanese.

Japan is also expected to urge the North to hand over the surviving members of the Yodo Group, a radical Japanese terror gang who hijacked a Japanese domestic flight and forced it to fly to Pyongyang more than 30 years ago in 1971.

Arirang TV