N. Korean defector says he has no knowledge of abductee Yokota

TOKYO, Japan - Shigeru Yokota (C) and his wife Sakie, parents of Megumi Yokota, who was abducted to North Korea from Japan as a teenager and who Pyongyang claims has died, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on April 5, 20101, after Hwang Jang Yop, a former high-ranking North Korean official who defected to South Korea in 1997, told Japanese lawmakers in Tokyo he has no knowledge of Megumi. The former secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea was in Tokyo to meet some 20 lawmakers including Hiroshi Nakai, minister in charge of abduction issues.

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