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PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA - OCT. 27: A Japanese government delegation arrived in Pyongyang for a four-day visit aimed at assessing North Korea's investigation into the fates of Japanese nationals abducted decades ago on Monday, October 27. The mission, led by Junichi Ihara, director general of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of the Foreign Ministry, was greeted by Ryu Song Il, chief of the Japanese affairs section at the North Korean Foreign Ministry, upon arrival at Pyongyang airport. In talks with North Korea's special investigation committee on Tuesday and Wednesday in Pyongyang, the delegation will try to obtain information on 12 unaccounted for Japanese abductees recognized by Tokyo. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe places top priority on advancing the abduction issue rather than the North's probe into other missing Japanese such as the wives of pro-Pyongyang Korean residents of Japan who moved to North Korea under a 1959-1984 repatriation project. Even if the committee presents information on missing Japanese other than the abductees, Japan will not regard it as a first report on the investigation that North Korea was due to release sometime from late summer to early fall, according to Japanese officials.