The parents of Megumi Yokota, a Japanese girl abducted by North Korea, have described a meeting with her daughter as "miraculous," according to the BBC.

Megumi Yokota was kidnapped by North Korean agents in 1977, and she married a South Korean abductee and had a daughter in 1994. Her parents, Shigeru and Sakie Yokota, have campaigned for decades to find out what happened to her.

For the first time, her parents were allowed to meet Megumi's daughter in Mongolia. The couple has described their meeting with 26-year-old Kim Eun-gyong (Megumi's daughter) in this way: "It was a miraculous event and it provided great pleasure."

Since the couple did not want to make the meeting political, they did not ask about the fate of their daughter.

Megumi Yokota was one of a number of Japanese nationals abducted by Pyongyang in the 1970s and 80s as a way of training North Korean spies.

The abduction issue remains a key issue in the relationship between Japan and North Korea.

Source: BBC