A Japanese woman believed to have been abducted by North Korea in 1977 is currently living in Pyongyang, the Yonhap news agency reported Wednesday, citing information given to local media Tuesday night by South Korea's state intelligence agency.
Kyoko Matsumoto, who disappeared from Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, at the age of 29, was relocated to North Korea's capital after having lived in the port city of Chongjin in recent years, the National Intelligence Service said, according to Yonhap.
The information corresponds to a November 2012 disclosure by Choi Song Yong, the head of a group of relatives of South Korean abductees, that Matsumoto was moved to Pyongyang from Chongjin in 2011, according to his source inside the hermit nation.