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Abductees From North Korea

May 16, 2006-Seoul, South Korea-Choi Gye Wol(L) of abductee Kim Young Nam's mother. and Kim Young Ja(R) of Kim's sister. A Two women attend meeting event about kidnapped family meeting in Seoul, South Korea. Megumi Yokota was abducted on 15 November 1977 at the age of thirteen while walking home from school in her seaside village in Niigata Prefecture. North Korean agents reportedly dragged her into a boat and took her straight to North Korea to a facility in which North Korean spies were taught about South Korean customs and practices. There she was taught the Korean language. Also at the facility were two South Korean high school students, aged 18 and 16, who had been abducted from South Korea in August 1977. In August 1978, three more 16-year-old South Korean students were abducted from South Korea and taken to the facility. The three included Kim Young-nam , who would reportedly later marry Yokota. (Photo by Seung-il Ryu/NurPhoto)

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