Marzuki Darusman, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the DPRK visited Japan to discuss North Korea’s abduction of Japanese citizens.

Japan’s Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday evening said Japan would like to “cooperate with the U.N.” to complete the report about the human rights situation in North Korea.

Katsunobu Kato, the cabinet minister in charge of the abduction issue, spoke with Darusman Monday night, where Darusman told him the abduction issue would be resolved through “continuous dialogue between the two countries,” and that the issue has drawn international attention. Kato also said Japan would demand that North Korea