The Japanese Agreed With Them
Apparently, the Japanese became just as invested in David’s case because they had a number of ‘abducted’ Japanese citizens as well. So when Japanese politician Keiji Furuya told Kirkpatrick, “It is most probably that a U.S. national has been abducted to North Korea,” others would claim that they were only trying to get the US governments’ interference so that they could get their Japanese citizens out.