Japanese negotiators in North Korea met Friday with the apparent husband of a Japanese citizen who was kidnapped by Pyongyang's agents in 1977 and, according to the North, died in the reclusive state, a Japanese official said.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda also said that the four-day talks in Pyongyang on that abduction and nine other cases of missing Japanese were extended through the weekend.
The talks were originally set to end Friday. But the Japanese delegation, led by Mitoji Yabunaka, head of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, will now stay in Pyongyang through Monday, Hosoda told a regular news conference.