Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (L) shakes hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il as they meet for talks in Pyongyang May 22, 2004. Koizumi and Kim ended talks after about 90 minutes, as Japanese citizens abducted decades ago waited back in Tokyo to see if they would be reunited with their relatives still in the communist state. [Reuters]

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (L) shakes hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il as they meet for talks in Pyongyang May 22, 2004. Koizumi and Kim ended talks after about 90 minutes, as Japanese citizens abducted decades ago waited back in Tokyo to see if they would be reunited with their relatives still in the communist state. [Reuters]

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, second from left, accompanied by Japanese deputy Foreign Minister Mitoji Yabunaka, left, talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, second from right, accompanied by North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kang Sok Ju, third from right, during a summit in Pyongyang Saturday, May 22, 2004. Koizumi and Kim held a quick 90-minute summit to revive talks on normalizing relations and defuse a standoff over the relatives of the Japanese citizens kidnapped by Northern agents. The man at right is unidentified. [AP]