Online U.N. symposium on N. Korea's abductions of Japanese

Online U.N. symposium on N. Korea's abductions of Japanese

Takuya Yokota, head of a group representing the families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s, speaks remotely from Tokyo on June 24, 2026, for a U.N. symposium on the abduction issue. Yokota's elder sister, Megumi, was abducted by North Korea in 1977 at age 13.

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