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/ 23 September 2002
It will rank as a stunning confession to one of the most bizarre crimes ever committed by a state. This week North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-il said his country’s special forces abducted at least a dozen Japanese nationals during the 1970s and 1980s in a fit of patriotic overzealousness.
Conservationists have suffered a setback when two proposals for whale sanctuaries sank at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) annual meeting in Japan.
The International Whaling Commission’s week-long annual plenary ended with a ban on commercial hunting in place for another year.