1.   Last week, another Swiss national was kidnapped in the same area.

2.   Last year, several French nationals were kidnapped from a yacht in nearly the same place.

3.   Last year several French nationals were kidnapped from a yacht in nearly the same place.

4.   Nord Resources said one Sierra Leone and two British nationals were kidnapped.

5.   Officials at the German and Austrian embassies said they had no information that nationals had been kidnapped.

6.   The Pentagon first rose to notoriety when its members kidnapped four Chinese nationals in June and August.

7.   He added that another of their duties was to attack the Australian, French and American embassies with grenades and kidnap nationals of those countries.

8.   But Japan has been reluctant to follow suit amid a furore at home over allegations that Japanese nationals had been kidnapped to the North in the past.

9.   Japan has been reluctant to provide aid amid a furore at home over allegations that Japanese nationals had been kidnapped to the North in the past.

10.   Japan has recently resisted US urging to give its surplus rice to the famine-stricken country citing allegations North Korean agents had kidnapped Japanese nationals here.