Shigeo Iizuka, who until a week ago headed a group of family members waging a decades-long campaign for the return of loved ones abducted by North Korea, died on Dec. 18. He was 83. Iizuka joined the ...

Recent testimony by a repatriated Japanese abductee supports allegations that fellow abductee Yaeko Taguchi was the language tutor for a confessed North Korean agent who blew a Korean Air jetliner out ...

Kim Hyun Hee was the North Korean spy condemned to death for blowing up a commercial airliner and killing 115 people. For a long while her life was on hold, and she certainly was not travelling ...

Relatives of Japanese abductee to meet ex-NK spy: Shigeo Izuka, elder brother of Yaeko Taguchi who was abducted by North Korean agents in 1978, arrives at Gimhae International Airport in Busan, ...

In this Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2017 photo, Koichiro Iizuka, whose mother Yaeko Taguchi was abducted by North Korean agents in 1978 when he was a baby, speaks during the interview with the Associated Press ...

Relatives of a person kidnapped by North Korea 30 years ago criticized the government Sunday for "a lack of enthusiasm" in trying to resolve the abduction issue. "Japanese and U.S. policies toward ...

BUSAN, South KoreaBUSAN, South Korea — A former North Korean spy met Wednesday with relatives of a Japanese woman abducted to the North decades ago, giving the abductee’s son hope that his mother – ...

BUSAN, South Korea | A former North Korean spy met Wednesday with relatives of a Japanese woman abducted to the North decades ago, giving the abductee’s son hope that his mother - declared dead by ...