Megumi Yokota

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Megumi Yokota
Megumi (five months old) with her father
Born5 October 1964
Nagoya, Japan[1]
Disappeared15 November 1977 (aged 13)
Niigata Prefecture
StatusMissing for 46 years, 4 months and 11 days
NationalityJapanese
OccupationStudent

Megumi Yokota (横田 めぐみ, Yokota Megumi) (born 5 October 1964) is a Japanese woman. She was kidnapped by a North Korean agent in 1977, when she was a thirteen-year-old junior high school student.

She was one of at least seventeen Japanese citizens kidnapped by North Korea in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

The North Korean government said that they kidnapped Yokota, but also said that she died in captivity. Yokota's parents and others in Japan believe that she is still alive in North Korea.

On September 19, 2017, President of the United States Donald Trump, in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly, included Yokota in a series of accusations against the North Korean government.[2]

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