Megumi Yokota
Kidnapped Japanese child (1964-1994)
Megumi Yokota (横田 めぐみ, Yokota Megumi) (born 5 October 1964) is a Japanese woman. She was kidnapped by a North Korean agent in 1977, when she was a thirteen-year-old junior high school student.
Megumi Yokota | |
|---|---|
| Born | 5 October 1964 |
| Disappeared | 15 November 1977 (aged 13) Niigata Prefecture |
| Status | Missing for 47 years and 5 days |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Occupation | Student |
She was one of at least seventeen Japanese citizens kidnapped by North Korea in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
The North Korean government said that they kidnapped Yokota, but also said that she died in captivity. Yokota's parents and others in Japan believe that she is still alive in North Korea.
On September 19, 2017, President of the United States Donald Trump, in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly, included Yokota in a series of accusations against the North Korean government.[2]
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change- ↑ https://mainichi.jp/articles/20190323/k00/00m/040/202000c, 28 January 2021
- ↑ Associated Press, from Japan Today, "Megumi Yokota's mother thankful Trump spoke of her daughter's abduction in U.N. speech", 21 September 2017
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