Pyongyang has offered to let a man both Japan and South Korea say was kidnapped and fathered the daughter of Japanese abductee Megumi Yokota in North Korea meet his mother for a special reunion, the communist nation's official media said Thursday.

The North will allow the man, South Korean national Kim Young Nam, to meet his mother for a special reunion at Mount Kumgang in North Korea, the Korean Central News Agency reported.

Seoul and Tokyo believe Kim was Yokota's husband.