Mother of Japanese abductee

Mother of Japanese abductee

Sakie Yokota, whose daughter Megumi was abducted by North Korea at age 13 in 1977, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 11, 2024. Megumi is a symbol of Japanese nationals abducted by Pyongyang.

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