Families of abduction victims refuse to believe accounts

Thursday, October 3, 2002

TOKYO -- One married an American defector and is still living. But North Korea says eight other Japanese kidnapped by communist spies died -- one committed suicide in a mental hospital, two died in car crashes, two more of gas poisoning, two others of illness and one drowned.

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