IleJadi - Parents of Megumi Yokota, who was abducted by North Korean agents in 1977, have emotional first encounter with her daughter - and her baby girl
The mother of a Japanese woman kidnapped and taken to North Korea as a schoolgirl has hailed a "miraculous" first meeting in Mongolia with her long-lost granddaughter.
Megumi Yokota who was only 13 years old when she was kidnapped by North Korean agents in 1977 on her way home from school.
The secretive state insists that Yokota killed herself in 1994, an explanation that Tokyo has long refused to accept.
Yokota's parents - father Shigeru, 81, and mother Sakie, 78 - spent five days last week with their granddaughter, 26-year-old Kim Eun-Gyong, and her family in the Mongolian capital Ulan Bator, Japan's foreign ministry said Sunday.
"What we have dreamt about for such a long time has come true - they were miraculous days for us," Yokota's mother told a press briefing Monday near Tokyo.
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