Thanks in part to the efforts of President Trump, hostages taken by Hamas have been released, and the fighting in the Gaza Strip has temporarily subsided.
Since Israel had been conducting unilateral attacks, one cannot help but wonder whether more lives might have been saved if Hamas had agreed to negotiations earlier. Yet the events have already passed, and I am in no position to comment on the complex circumstances behind them.
Watching the scenes of families rejoicing over the release of their loved ones, I could not help but think of the families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea.
They have endured decades of anguish, never giving up hope for the return of their loved ones — an ordeal that is truly heartbreaking.
Because of Japan’s wartime history, the government could not take direct military action to rescue them. There was a time when the families seemed close to reaching their relatives, but that faint thread of hope has now vanished into the darkness.
North Korea’s political system, resistant to all forms of international pressure, remains formidable. A breakthrough may be hard to find, yet all we can do is continue to hope — that someday, every one of them will come home.
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