The Democratic People's Republic of Korea also claims that the eight individuals mentioned had died, and that it had returned the remains of two of those individuals to Japan, in 2002 and 2004.
朝鲜民主主义人民共和国还宣称，上述八人已经去世，并已经分别于2002年和2004年将其中两人的遗骸归还日本。