Parents want daughter rescued from N. Korea

Parents want daughter rescued from N. Korea

FUKUOKA, Japan - The parents of Megumi Yokota, who disappeared in Niigata in 1977 at age 13, collect signatures calling for the rescue of Japanese allegedly kidnapped by North Korean agents. Megumi's mother Sakie (L) and father Shigeru (C) gathered support March 9 in Fukuoka's Tenjin, Chuo Ward, and called for the rescue of Megumi and nine other Japanese who Tokyo says were abducted by North Korean agents in seven incidents in the 1970s and 1980s.

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