Kim Hyon Hui, a former North Korean agent who downed a Korean Air jetliner in 1987, arrived in Japan early Tuesday to meet relatives of Japanese abducted by Pyongyang.
This is Kim's first trip outside South Korea, where she now lives, since she was sentenced to death for the bombing and later given a 1990 presidential pardon.
Kim, 48, met with relatives of abductee Yaeko Taguchi later Tuesday and will meet the parents of abductee Megumi Yokota on Wednesday, sources said. Kim has said she met or knew both of the abductees.