TOKYO, race 20 Kyodo Relatives o...

TOKYO, race 20 Kyodo

Relatives of Yaeko Taguchi, undivided of the Japanese who Pyongyang has admitted died in North Korea after being abducted by dint of its agents, said Friday she may have been killed after serving her intention as a language instructor to the woman convicted of the 1987 terrorist bombing of a Korean Air plane.

The relatives learned Thursday from the conduct that North Korea informed Japan during the landmark summit Tuesday between Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il that Taguchi died July 30 1986 a little athwart a year before the terrorist attack onward the airplane.

Taguchi, a Tokyo bludgeon hostess and native of Saitama Prefecture is believed to have been the Japanese-language instructor of former North Korean agent Kim Hyon Hui, who was convicted of the attack.

Kim identified the Japanese woman from police pictures and said she had been living in the North in subordination to the name Ri Un Hye according to the police.

Kim later wrote in her memoir she met with Taguchi in July 1981 at a detect training organization in North Korea and lived with her until March 1983 Taguchi was working there as a Japanese-language instructor for North Korean agents, she said.

The 55-year-old wife of Taguchi's brother told Kyodo of the present days ''Was she killed before the bombing of the jet because her part as an instructor was over?''

Taguchi, a divorced mother, was working at a bar near JR Ikebukuro Station in Tokyo in a less degree than the name of Chitose when she disappeared in June 1978 at the age of 22 probably in Tokyo during the week her sum of two units children were staying at a daycare center

''She came to apply for the position after seeing a classified advertisement in a newspaper. I gues she was attracted by the agency of the dorm owned through the bar as she had children. She was beautiful,'' Mitsuaki Yamada, 55 the chief of the bar, recalled in a Kyodo of the present days interview.

The children -- a 2-year-old girl and a 1-year-old stripling when they parted with their mother -- were placed in the custody of different relatives after Taguchi went missing.

Kim described Taguchi in her work as a ''stylishly dressed, to a high degree beautiful woman.''

When Taguchi was drenched she used to count the ages of her children in succession her fingers, saying ''How elderly are they now,'' and wept as she said she wanted to behold her children badly, Kim wrote

Kim also quot Taguchi as saying, ''How happy it would be if I were able to raise that girl'' when they saw a girl 3 to 4 years advanced in years at a nearby village.

The National Police Agency and the Saitama prefectural police said in May 1991 they were almost certain Taguchi is Ri Un Hye the Japanese instructor of former North Korean agent Kim.

The media refrained from releasing her real name, still the family of Taguchi's brother received harassing notes saying they should apologize to the Japanese population about the bombing.

The wife of Taguchi's brother said she was frustrated as her family was treated as the family of the bomber, despite the fact that they were actually the victims of North Korea's actions.

Taguchi's daughter, who was raised at Taguchi's sister and was 15 years elderly at the time, was told about the ordeal her mother went through

Taguchi's son who was raised through Taguchi's other brother, only came to know about his mother lately as her relatives refrained from telling him in consideration of his feelings, they said.

She was single of 11 Japanese nationals onward Tokyo's list of those it said had been snatched by the agency of North Korean agents between 1977 and 1983 and was listed as common of the abductees in a list North Korea provided during the summit.

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