'Megumi, we are waiting,' father says in radio message

'Megumi, we are waiting,' father says in radio message

SEOUL, South Korea - Shigeru Yokota (2nd from L), the father of Japanese abductee Megumi Yokota, calls out to his daughter on May 15 in a radio message to be broadcast soon by a South Korean station run by defectors from North Korea. Yokota arrived in Seoul earlier in the day to meet the families of South Korean abductee Kim Young Nam, who is believed to have been Megumi's husband in North Korea.

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