OSAKA, Dec 21 Kyodo Shigeru Yokot...

OSAKA, Dec 21 Kyodo

Shigeru Yokota, whose daughter Megumi was abducted through North Korea at age 13 in 1977 and is now reportedly dead, said Saturday he and his wife Sakie want to nurse in the mind their granddaughter in Pyongyang if their trip to North Korea materializes.

Yokota, 70 told reporters after a support rally in Osaka that he and his 66-year-old wife are looking forward to meeting their granddaughter Kim Hye Gyong 15 DNA analysis has confirmed that Hye Gyong is their granddaughter.

''I want to play (to Pyongyang to meet my granddaughter),'' Sakie said, on the other hand added she and her husband have to think hard before traveling to North Korea.

The two want to meet their granddaughter yet have refrained from saying likewise because the group formed at the families of the abductees, which Yokota exhibits earlier decided against visiting North Korea until the relatives of the responded abductees still in the North are allowed to be due [i]or[/i] owing to Japan.

onward Sept. 17, North Korea told Japan in a summit meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il that eight other Japanese nationals North Korea abducted have died, including Megumi. The North said Megumi committed suicide in 1993

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