The government may ask South Korean radio stations to help relay information to abducted Japanese citizens in North Korea if a war or other catastrophic emergency occurs on the divided peninsula, sources familiar with the matter said Saturday.
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Tokyo wants radio stations that broadcast to North Korea to inform the abductees of emergency procedures and ports or other locations where they can evacuate in an emergency, the sources added.
Last month, the government adopted an eight-point set of measures for addressing the North Korean abductions, such as strongly demanding that Pyongyang conduct a reinvestigation into the current circumstances of the abductees.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan earlier this month told relatives of the abductees that the government will compile a plan to rescue them in the event of a contingency on the Korean Peninsula.
"While refraining from providing details, we are considering measures assuming all possible eventualities," a source at the government's abduction issue headquarters said.
The government is also considering using its own shortwave radio station to broadcast to North Korea, while calling on a private group investigating possible abductions to cooperate by providing emergency information through its shortwave service in the event of a contingency, the sources said. The South is said to be planning to fly radio receivers to people in the North using balloons.
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