Tags: Kidnapping

North Korea has told Japan it can only give a preliminary report on the status of its investigation into the fate of Japanese citizens abducted by Pyongyang decades ago and of other missing Japanese, the government spokesman in Tokyo said on Friday.

Ariel Castro, the abductor of three Cleveland women and held them in a dungeon in his basement for 10 years, wrote a suicide note in which he confessed to his crimes, but also blamed the victims for getting into his car. In the note found by investigators, he also claimed that he been abused as a child and raped by an uncle

The suspected kidnappers raped their three Cleveland abductees for a decade, resulting in several pregnancies and the birth of one little child.