Trump to meet parents of Japanese teenager seized by North Korea
(The Guardian North Korea)

US president to speak to family of Megumi Yokota, taken in 1977 aged 13, in bid to press North to resolve cold war abductionsDonald Trump will meet the parents of a teenager snatched from her home by North Korean spies 40 years ago when he visits Tokyo next month, as Japan attempts to maintain pressure on Pyongyang to resolve the cold war abductions of dozens of its citizens.The Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, said he was arranging for the president to meet Shigeru and Sakie Yokota, whose daughter, Megumi, was abducted from her hometown of Niigata on the Sea of Japan coast in November 1977, when she was 13 years old. Continue reading...