Japan - June 17th, 2014

In late May, Japan and North Korea made an agreement that Japan would lift part of the sanctions imposed on North Korea once Pyongyang starts a "comprehensive and full-scale survey of all Japanese" including those abductions and missing Japanese. However, they are still in discussions on how Japan will receive a notice about the launch of the investigations, which are possibly this week. http://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/Policy-Politics/Japan-North-Korea-in-talks-over-launch-of-abduction-probe-unit