40 years since N. Korea's abduction of Japanese woman

40 years since N. Korea's abduction of Japanese woman

Hitomi Soga, one of the five Japanese abductees repatriated from North Korea in 2002, speaks to an audience in Niigata on Nov. 15, 2017, the day fellow abductee Megumi Yokota was taken by North Korean agents 40 years ago at age 13. Soga shared memories of a brief period when she lived with Yokota in North Korea and called for continued efforts to realize the return of Yokota and other abduction victims to Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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