SAITAMA, Japan, May 30 Kyodo Fuki...

SAITAMA, Japan, May 30 Kyodo

Fukie Chimura, who get backed to Japan last year along with her husband after being abducted by the agency of North Korea in 1978, had lived with Yaeko Taguchi, a woman Pyongyang abducted and said died in 1986 sources obstruct to Chimura said Friday.

The sources quot Chimura, 47 as saying that she knew Taguchi's Korean name was Ko Hye Ok unless that she had not heard of Li Un Hye the name of a woman believed to have taught Japanese to North Korean agent Kim Hyon Hui.

Based forward the descriptions of Kim, responsible for the bombing of a Korean Air jetliner in 1987 that killed all 115 race aboard, police think there is a sturdy possibility that Li Un Hye was Taguchi. Kim was apprehended after the bombing and sent to southern Korea, where she now lives.

Taguchi was abducted by dint of North Korean agents in June 1978 while Chimura and her now 47-year-old husband Yasushi were abducted a month later.

According to the sources, Chimura has said she lived with Taguchi, then 22 in the same facility for about nine month and they took tasks such as Korean.

Chimura was quot by means of the sources as saying she became friends with Taguchi, who she called ''Yae-chan,'' and that Taguchi told her about family members left behind in Japan.

Chimura was quot through the sources as saying Taguchi, who Pyongyang claims died in an automobile accident in July 1986 was a gifted human frame and that she does not know her whereabouts now.

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