It was in July of 2010 in Karuizawa in Nagano Prefecture-thanks to cooperation between Japan and South Korea-that Kim met with Mr. I cannot help crying.вЂќ Her tears would not stop and the words would not come out. Kim Hyon-hui burst into tears during the interview when Norio Sakurai, the correspondent of the Sankei Shimbun Seoul Bureau, read out a message that he got from Sakie Yokota, 81, mother of Megumi, who had been abducted 40 years earlier by North Korea. I am praying for your good health and the strength to carry on.вЂќ вЂњI think that you must have had numerous painful and hard-to-bear experiences as part of this unhappy fate.

Her son is obsessed with the animated film Your Name and uses Japanese greetings, such as tadaima (IвЂ™m back) and gochisosama (Thank you for the delicious meal). Both have been studying Japanese as a second language and are said to be very taken by things Japanese. The son of former agent, Kim is now a high school student and her daughter a middle school student. Kim revealed she had learned from recent refugees who had fled North Korea that, immediately after the attack on the Korean Air flight, her parents had been expelled from Pyongyang and had died. In her view, Chairman KimвЂ™s ultimate goal with his missile and nuclear weapons development is вЂњto negotiate a peace treaty with the US that leads to the withdrawal of US troops from South Korea, followed by the unification of Korea under a socialist system.вЂќ

Within five years we will see changes.вЂќ This is because the United States has once again designated North Korea as a sponsor of terrorism, and China, which had been providing backing for the North Korean regime, is now also participating in UN sanctions. In the view of Kim, North Korea вЂњin economic terms, cannot carry on for long. After this failed in Europe, however, the purpose of abduction shifted to the training of operatives. Given that Kim Jong-un, chairman of the WorkerвЂ™s Party and supreme leader of North Korea, learned Japanese at an early age, there is the possibility that Megumi taught Kim family children.ДЄs to why someone only 13 years old would be abducted, former agent Kim explained that the original idea was to turn foreign nationals into вЂњKim Il-sung Revolutionary FightersвЂќ and use them in secret operations. Kim said that she later heard that Megumi had given birth to a daughter fathered by her husband who was an abductee from South Korea.ДЄs for the North Korean insistence that Megumi is dead, Kim said that because Megumi had been involved in the training of agents, вЂњshe knows things that would be a problem if they were disclosed.вЂќ Above and beyond that, вЂњthe number one reason is that she was involved with the Kim family.вЂќ Kim said that she heard that after Megumi got divorced she was a Japanese language tutor for the Kim family, although, she added, вЂњI donвЂ™t know the details.вЂќ Before the Korean Air terrorist incident she saw a photograph of Megumi together with Yukiko Hasuike, an abductee who later returned to Japan. Sometime around June 1984, Kim met Megumi, who was involved in the language instruction of a fellow operative. Kim insists that the abduction victim Megumi Yokota is вЂњalive.вЂќ She revealed that the primary reason North Korea is unwilling to return Megumi to Japan is because she got to know secrets of the Kim family while serving as a Japanese language instructor to Kim Jung-il. Kim Hyon-hui, 55, a former North Korean operative and one of the two responsible for the crime, gave an interview to the Sankei Shimbun in Korea. The 29th of November was the 30th anniversary of the terrorist attack that destroyed Korean Air flight 858 carrying 115 passengers and crew.

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