Megumi Yokota, a Japanese girl kidnapped by North Korean agents in the 1970s when she was 13, had died in 1994 at a psychiatric ward in Pyongyang, North Korean defectors said Friday.
Choi Sung-yong, who represents an organization of families of abductees here, said he has helped the Japanese government's probe into the whereabouts of Japanese nationals forcibly taken to North Korea decades ago.