As you’ve probably heard by now, Japanese police have obtained an arrest warrant for an alleged female North Korean spy suspected of abducting two Japanese children and bringing them to North Korea.

Police obtained the arrest warrant for Yoko Kinoshita, 59, for allegedly kidnapping a 6-year-old girl and her 3-year-old brother in 1973 and taking them to North Korea, Kyodo News agency reported. Police refused to immediately confirm the report.

The National Police Agency was to place a request to the Interpol to place Kinoshita on an international wanted list. She would be the ninth North Korean abduction-related suspect to be listed on international wanted lists through Interpol.

This is just another step in a series of things that police and government officials have done to take on North Korea and their abduction. Two days ago, there was a raid on pro-North Korean association in Tokyo that police say is related to this issue. Japanese Prime Minister Abe has made the abduction issue a key priority in his administration.

North Korea admitted in 2002 that it kidnapped 13 Japanese citizens in the 1970s and ’80s. Pyongyang sent five of them home later that year, but insisted the rest were dead. Japan has demanded proof of the deaths, and says more of its citizens may have been taken.