Text of report in English by Japanese news agency Kyodo
Tokyo, 9 July: The government will begin a daily shortwave radio programme late Monday [9 July] aimed at Japanese abductees possibly surviving in North Korea, it said. The 30-minute programme will broadcast voices of the families of abductees and also carry information on the international situation surrounding North Korea and Japan’s efforts to save the abductees.
The programme will be aired both in Japanese and Korean, each for 30 minutes, and its contents will be renewed every week, government officials said.
The government declined to reveal other details including the time of broadcasting and frequency, citing the possibility that the service may be subject to jamming by North Korea.
(Source: Kyodo News Service, Tokyo, in English 0631 gmt 9 Jul 07 via BBC Monitoring/R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)