North Korea's Red Cross Society has handed its Japanese counterpart files on two missing Japanese, but the pair are not among the 10 Japanese believed to have been abducted by North Korean agents, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hidenao Nakagawa said Friday.
The files were handed to the Japanese Red Cross Society during an informal working-level meeting of the Red Cross groups held on July 21 in Beijing, the government's top spokesman said at a regular news conference.
Nakagawa declined to give the names, sex or other details of the two, citing the need to protect their privacy. But he said they "are unrelated to those suspected of having been abducted."