Megumi Yokota

(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. 

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.Associated Press, from Japan Today, "Megumi Yokota's mother thankful Trump spoke of her daughter's abduction in U.N. speech", 21 September 2017 

Related pages

List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1910–1990

References

Category:1964 births
Category:Missing people
Category:People from Niigata Prefecture