CCTV9英语新闻：日本绑架问题调查团结束访朝（在线收听）

The Japanese delegation said they travelled to the DPRK to learn in detail about the latest investigation into the abduction of Japanese citizens by the DPRK in the 1970s and 80s. The DPRK has refused to disclose details of the two-day meetings, or whether a new round of negotiations will be held in the near future.

Junichi Ihara (far R), director general of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, and So Tae Ha (far L), chairman of North Korea's special investigation committee into the whereabouts of Japanese nationals abducted by Pyongyang decades ago, launch their two days of talks on the abduction issue in Pyongyang on Oct. 28, 2014. Ihara leads a Japanese government mission dispatched to North Korea for the first time since November 2004. [Photo: Imagine China]

In July the DPRK announced the establishment of a special committee tasked with probing the fate of the kidnapped Japanese citizens. In return, Japan eased several sanctions on the DPRK.