Ex-agent, abductee kin to meet soon: S. Korea foreign minister

SEOUL, South Korea - Former North Korean agent Kim Hyon Hui sent this photo to one of her acquaintances in October 2008 saying the woman in the photo is herself. Kim was sentenced to death over her involvement in the fatal bombing of a South Korean airliner in 1987 but later freed under a pardon. Kim is believed to have received Japanese language lessons in North Korea from Japanese woman Yaeko Taguchi, who was abducted to the country in 1978.

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