No. of Japanese abducted by N.Korea much higher, report says

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The number of Japanese people abducted by North Korea decades ago to train its spies may be far higher than previously thought, a report said Tuesday, citing a former Pyongyang agent.
Between 1965 and 1985, a team of around 120 North Korean troops repeatedly abducted young Japanese fishermen, the Sankei Shimbun reported, citing a government interview with a formerly high ranking North Korean military official.
One of the missions involved the snatching of a man in his 30s from a boat in waters off Aomori Prefecture in northern Japan, the report said. The vessel and its remaining four crew members were sunk, it said.

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