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Abductee's son hoping to learn about mother in meeting ex-agent

TOKYO, Japan - Koichi Iizuka, whose mother Yaeko Taguchi was abducted to North Korea in 1978, speaks during an interview with Kyodo News at a Tokyo hotel Feb. 19. Iizuka said he wants to find out what his mother was like when he meets Kim Hyon Hui, a former North Korean agent who is believed to have been taught Japanese by Taguchi, in South Korea probably by the end of this month.

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

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows former North Korean agent Kim Hyon Hui who arrived in Gimpo airport in South Korea in December 1987 after being arrested for her involvement in the fatal bombing of a South Korean airliner. South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Yu Myung Hwan said Feb. 11 that Kim can soon meet with the relatives of Japanese woman Yaeko Taguchi, who is believed to have taught Japanese to Kim in North Korea after being abducted to the secretive country in 1978. North Korea said Taguchi already died but her family members say they do not believe it and have long called for information about her whereabouts.

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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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Chimura couple told police ex-agent Sin Guang Su taught them Korean

TOKYO, Japan - Two repatriated Japanese victims of abduction by North Korea have told police that Sin Guang Su (in file photo), a former North Korean agent who is on the international wanted list, was in charge of educating them in the North, police sources said Feb. 2. Yasushi and Fukie Chimura, both 50, have said to police investigators that Sin, 76, taught them Korean and other things at a facility in North Korea.

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CIA saw no al-Qaida-Iraq link before invasion: ex-agent

WASHINGTON, United States - Michael Scheuer, a senior adviser to the head of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's Bin Laden Department until November 2004, has told Kyodo News the CIA had concluded two months before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003 there was no connection between the President Saddam Hussein's government and the al-Qaida terrorist network.

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Ex-agent says Japanese abductees in N. Korea still alive

YONAGO, Japan - An Myong Jin (2nd from L), a former North Korean agent, speaks at a meeting in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, on Jan. 15 with families of two Japanese allegedly abducted by North Korea.

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CIA saw no al-Qaida-Iraq link before invasion: ex-agent

WASHINGTON, United States - Michael Scheuer, a senior adviser to the head of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's Bin Laden Department until November 2004, has told Kyodo News the CIA had concluded two months before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003 there was no connection between the President Saddam Hussein's government and the al-Qaida terrorist network. (Kyodo)

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(CORRECTED)Ex-agent, abductee kin to meet soon: S. Korea foreign

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. (Kyodo)

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Abductee's son hoping to learn about mother in meeting ex-agent

TOKYO, Japan - Former North Korean agent Kim Hyon Hui (L) and Yaeko Taguchi (R), who is believed to have taught Japanese to Kim after she was abducted to North Korea in 1978. A meeting between Kim, now in South Korea, and Taguchi's relatives, including her son Koichi Iizuka, is expected to take place in the country later this month. (Kyodo)

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Abductee's son hoping to learn about mother in meeting ex-agent

TOKYO, Japan - Koichi Iizuka, whose mother Yaeko Taguchi was abducted to North Korea in 1978, speaks during an interview with Kyodo News at a Tokyo hotel Feb. 19. Iizuka said he wants to find out what his mother was like when he meets Kim Hyon Hui, a former North Korean agent who is believed to have been taught Japanese by Taguchi, in South Korea probably by the end of this month. (Kyodo)

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Ex-agent says Japanese abductees in N. Korea still alive

YONAGO, Japan - An Myong Jin (2nd from L), a former North Korean agent, speaks at a meeting in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, on Jan. 15 with families of two Japanese allegedly abducted by North Korea. (Kyodo)

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Chimura couple told police ex-agent Sin Guang Su taught them Kor

TOKYO, Japan - Two repatriated Japanese victims of abduction by North Korea have told police that Sin Guang Su (in file photo), a former North Korean agent who is on the international wanted list, was in charge of educating them in the North, police sources said Feb. 2. Yasushi and Fukie Chimura, both 50, have said to police investigators that Sin, 76, taught them Korean and other things at a facility in North Korea. (Kyodo)