Kyodo news summary -5-

TOKYO, Nov. 20 Kyodo

---------- Abe urges N. Korea to sincerely respond to global call

HANOI - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday that the international community demonstrated it was united in its concern about North Korea's Oct. 9 nuclear test during a regional economic forum in Hanoi and that Pyongyang needs to listen to the global call.

His remarks came a day after the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum summit wrapped up Sunday with 21 members airing their ''strong concern'' over the nuclear test and urging Pyongyang to take ''concrete and effective steps'' to abandon its nuclear programs.

---------- Protests to welcome Bush in Indonesia

BOGOR, Indonesia - Protests across Indonesia reached fever pitch Monday hours before U.S. President George W. Bush's arrival for a half-day visit.

Thousands of supporters of the Muslim-based Prosperous Justice Party, one of the country's major political parties, marched toward the Bogor Palace, near Jakarta, where Bush will meet Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

---------- Japan tells N. Korea of newly listed abductee, no response: Shiozaki

TOKYO - Japan has communicated to North Korea through an embassy channel in Beijing a demand that Pyongyang immediately repatriate Kyoko Matsumoto, who Tokyo officially listed the same day as a Japanese national kidnapped by North Korean agents, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki said Monday.

Japan also sternly urged that North Korea shed light on the case of Matsumoto, who the Japanese government says was abducted in 1977, according to Shiozaki.

---------- Nepal panel blames king for atrocities during popular revolt

KATHMANDU - A high-level investigation commission has found King Gyanendra responsible for atrocities committed during a popular uprising that left 21 people dead and more than 5,000 injured in April this year, according to a report presented Monday to the government after six months of investigation.

Panel chairman and former Supreme Court justice Krishna Jung Rayamajhi said 202 people including members of the then council of ministers were found to be suppressors of the movement.

---------- Former chief of medical grants foundation arrested over embezzlement

TOKYO - A former director of an education ministry-affiliated foundation providing research grants was arrested Monday for allegedly pocketing around 54 million yen from the foundation's bank deposits, police said.

Tokio Kumazawa, 72, is suspected of having embezzled the amount by canceling bank deposits for the foundation between January 2001 and October 2002 when he was chief of the Japan Orthopedics and Traumatology Foundation in Tokyo.

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