The sister of Kim Young Nam, the South Korean man believed to have been abducted to North Korea nearly three decades ago, quoted him Sunday as saying at their recent reunion that Japan is making false claims about his former wife, abductee Megumi Yokota.
"My brother said they (the Japanese government) are dismissing his remarks even though they all know the truth," Kim Young Ja told a news conference.
"Please leave me alone and tell them (the Japanese) so," she quoted him as saying.
She and her mother traveled to North Korea's Mount Kumgang resort on Wednesday for their first reunion with Kim Young Nam, who went missing at the age of 17 in 1978 from a beach in South Korea. He has been counted as one of at least 485 South Koreans whom Seoul believes were abducted by North Korea.