ISIS demands $200M ransom for 2 Japanese hostages

Terrorist group, Islamic State in Iraq and Syria(ISIS) has threatened to kill two Japanese hostages they recently captured, unless it receives $200 million USD in 72 hours from the Japanese Government.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has however vowed to save the men, saying: "Their lives are the top priority." But declined to say whether they'd make the payment to save the men, identified in an extremist video released Tuesday as Kenji Goto Jogo and Haruna Yukawa.

The video, identified as being made by ISIS's al-Furqan media arm and posted on militant websites associated with the extremist group, mirrored other hostage threats it has made.

Japanese officials said they would analyze the tape to verify its authenticity, though Abe offered no hesitation as he pledged to free the men while speaking to journalists in Jerusalem.

"It is unforgivable," said Abe, now on a six-day visit to the Middle East with more than 100 government officials and presidents of Japanese companies. He added: "Extremism and Islam are completely different things."

In the video, the two men appear in orange jumpsuits like other hostages previously killed by ISIS, which controls a third of Iraq and Syria.

The knife-brandishing militant in the video resembles and sounds like a British militant involved in other filmed beheadings.