With North Korea's announcement on the 26th of its nuclear development plan based upon the agreement stemming from the Six Party Talks, and the United States' commencement of procedures to remove North Korea from its designation on the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism, the families of abductees have expressed growing unease that it may constitute an abandonment of the abductee issue.
Putting aside the simultaneous multilateral terrorist attacks in Paris and the Californian San Paladino gunshot incident in America, in recent years, Islamists (Muslims) who live in the United States face an increasingly strong anti-Islamic sentiment.