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U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, right, talks to the media as South Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Lee Yong-joon looks on after their meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010. Campbell is in Asia this week to strategize with officials on how to get North Korea back to six-nation disarmament talks.

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell talks to the media after meeting with South Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Lee Yong-joon at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010. Campbell is in Asia this week to strategize with officials on how to get North Korea back to six-nation disarmament talks.

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, right, shakes hands with South Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Lee Yong-joon during their meeting in Seoul Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010. Campbell is on a three-day visit to South Korea.

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell talks during a meeting with South Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Lee Yong-Joon in Seoul, South Korea, on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010. Campbell is on a three-day visit to South Korea.

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell gestures prior to a meeting with South Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Lee Yong-joon in Seoul Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010. Campbell is on a three-day visit to South Korea.

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell speaks during a press conference at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010. Campbell said so-called "child abduction" issues have "raised very real concerns among senior and prominent Americans in Congress, on Capitol Hill and elsewhere, and I believe it is time for our two governments to create the best possible condition for these tragic cases to be resolved."

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell speaks during a press conference at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010. Campbell said so-called "child abduction" issues have "raised very real concerns among senior and prominent Americans in Congress, on Capitol Hill and elsewhere, and I believe it is time for our two governments to create the best possible condition for these tragic cases to be resolved."

American Steve Christie, 50, who has only rarely seen his son after his Japanese ex-wife left him, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press outside the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010. Japanese law permits only one parent to have custody of children in cases of divorce _ nearly always the mother. That leaves many fathers, including foreigners, unable to see their children in Japan until they are grown. There are more than 75 cases of American parents who are kept from seeing their children in Japan, and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell met with several of them including Christie earlier Tuesday, calling their situations "tragic."