North Korean abductions in the 1970s: Brothers of missing Japanese girl speak out
By France24
29 November 2022 |
2:22 pm
In 1977, 13-year-old Megumi Yokota vanished from the Japanese coastal city of Niigata on her way home from school. Twenty-five years later, North Korea admitted that its agents had snatched her away, along with 12 other Japanese citizens, in order to train its spies.
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