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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Search Search: Ex-NKorea spy believes Japanese abductee still alive AFP - Wednesday, March 11 BUSAN, South Korea (AFP) - - A former North Korean spy held an emotional meeting Wednesday with relatives of a Japanese woman kidnapped by Pyongyang in 1978, and said she believes the abductee is still alive. ADVERTISEMENT Kim Hyun-Hee, who says Yaeko Taguchi was her language tutor at a spy school in the North, met Taguchi's brother and son at a convention centre tightly guarded by police commandos in this southern city. With tears in her eyes, she hugged the son Koichiro, who was aged one when his 22-year-old mother was seized by the communist state's agents. "Have hope," Kim said, telling him she believed "your mother is alive." Kim, now 47, was sentenced to death but later pardoned for blowing up a South Korean airliner in November 1987 with the loss of 115 lives. She lives under guard at a secret address in the South and has not appeared in public since a brief appearance in 1997. Wednesday's event was organised by the Tokyo government as part of a campaign to persuade the North to come clean on the fate of all the Japanese it kidnapped during the Cold War era. Pyongyang admitted in 2002 it had abducted 13 Japanese to train its spies. It allowed five to return home and said the others had died. Taguchi was killed in a traffic accident in 1986, it has said. Kim cast doubt on the story. Kim told a press conference that after "overseas training" in Macau she had returned to a spy training camp in the North from January-October 1987. Taguchi, who had tutored her at the camp in the early 1980s, was no longer there. "What I heard then was that Taguchi was taken to somewhere else," Kim said. "I thought that she had not died but had been taken somewhere. "I believe Taguchi is still alive," she added, without giving reasons. Tokyo says the communist North kidnapped 17 Japanese in the 1970s and 1980s, including the five who returned. It demands the North account fully for the other 12 and suspects some are being kept under wraps because they know too much about the regime. Japan refuses to provide aid to North Korea under a six-nation denuclearisation deal until it gives answers. Taguchi's elder brother, Shigeo Iizuka, 70, told the press conference he believes all the abductees are alive. "We have received reports from North Korea. All of these documents turn out to have been forged," he said. Former spy Kim said Tokyo "may have to rack its brains to find out ways to move the North Koreans' minds while saving their face. "If it continues to work for rescuing them in such a way, a miracle can probably happen. In North Korea, 'dead' people are often alive," she said. The venue for the press conference was closely guarded for Kim's first public appearance since 1997. In addition to commandos, sniffer dogs and plainclothes security officials were deployed and journalists passed through metal detectors. "You really have grown up. You look very much like your mother," Kim told Koichiro, 32, when they met. At the press conference, Kim dismissed conspiracy theories about the 1987 plane bombing in which she took part. "What I would like to say clearly is that the KAL incident was definitely a North Korean terrorist act," she said. The apparent aim of the bombing of the Korean Air plane was to deter spectators from attending the Seoul Olympics the following year. After the attack the United States added North Korea to its list of state sponsors of terrorism. It dropped the North from the list last October, despite protests in Tokyo that the move was premature before the abduction issue is solved. 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