TORU HASUIKE, BROTHER OF FORMER NORTH KOREAN ABDUCTEE KAORU, SPEAKS DURING INTERVIEW IN TOKYO, 2003-08-19 (photo)

Toru Hasuike, elder brother of Kaoru Hasuike, one of five Japanese who returned home last October after being abducted nearly a quarter of a century ago by North Korean agents, speaks during an interview in Tokyo August 19, 2003. With their North Korean-born children left behind in the communist state, Kaoru, his wife Yukiko, and the Hasuike family's ordeal is far from over. Demands by the United States, Japan and South Korea that Pyongyang abandon a nuclear arms programme top the agenda for crucial six-way talks to be held in Beijing next week with China and Russia, but for Japan, the feud over the abductees' children is an equally huge obstacle to normalising ties with Pyongyang and providing its tattered economy with the aid it needs. Picture taken 19 August. REUTERS/Kimimasa Mayama ES/FA