Death of N. Korean abduction victim's father

Hitomi Soga, a former Japanese abduction victim of North Korea, meets the press on June 6, 2020, in Sado, Niigata Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo, commenting on the death the previous day of Shigeru Yokota, the father of abductee Megumi Yokota. Abducted at age 13 in 1977, Megumi Yokota has been a symbolic figure in the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals in the 1970s and 1980s (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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