Relatives of a Japanese woman abducted by Pyongyang will meet a former North Korean spy Wednesday in hopes of learning her fate, Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone said Monday.
Shigeo Iizuka, whose sister, Yaeko Taguchi, was kidnapped in 1978, will meet Kim Hyon Hui, a former agent who may have been tutored by abductee Taguchi during her intelligence training. Taguchi's son, Koichiro, will also be present at the meeting to be held in Busan, South Korea.
Iizuka, who is also the chairman of the Association of the Families of Victims Kidnapped by North Korea, had asked Tokyo and Seoul to arrange the meeting.