That's totally unrelated to the issue at hand and makes us skeptical about just how sincere they are to come to a conclusion over their abduction of our people.

The abduction issue is of the biggest interest to Japan, and we strongly urge North Korea to seriously consider the issue and come up with sincere and concrete measures.

There was no satisfactory answer from the North Korean side. This is very regrettable.

Let us have peace.

This was a big win for us tonight. It puts us in the fourth seed position in the conference tournament. We can't celebrate too much, though. We've got to play Brevard again in the conference tournament on Monday.

However, we have settled this litigation to put the matter behind us.