Yokota, Megumi

横田めぐみ

Megumi Yokota was born in Japan on October 15, 1964. At the age of 13, she was abducted by North Korean spies, allegedly to assist them in posing as "Japanese."
Megumi married a South Korean man in 1986 and gave birth to a daughter the following year. North Korea and her husband claim that Megumi committed suicide in 1994, but a DNA test proved that the remains delivered were not hers.
Her parents, Sakie and Shigeru Yokota, still hold out hope to this day that their daughter is alive and will return home.