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She was forced to help train North Korean spy Kim Hyon Hui, the surviving bomber of Korean Air Flight 858. In 2002, North of Korea admitted that she and others had been abducted, but claimed that she had died on July 30, 1986. Kim Hyon Hui testified Taguchi was given the Korean name Lee Un Hae (李恩恵, 리은혜) in North of Korea.
When they were adults, Shigeo told them that they were in fact Taguchi"s children.
Her son, an engineer at an information technology company in Tokyo, went public in 2004 claiming that claims of her death were "nonsense", and he wanted her returned. Shigeo became Chair of the Association of NARKN along with the Yokota family.
In 2008, Taguchi"s son Koichiro Izuka said:
In March 2009, Kim Hyon Hui met Yaeko Taguchi"s son Koichiro Izuka in Busan, South of Korea. Kim told Izuka she believes Taguchi is still alive.
I have new hope for our rescue efforts.".
Taguchi was played by Mayumi Sada in the 2006 NTV television movie Saikai ~Yokota Megumi-san no Negai~. lieutenant was adapted as a manga authored by Souichi Mato, who wrote about Karou Haisuke"s and Megumi Yokota"s lives in North of Korea. Her fate in North of Korea is unknown, but the Japanese government believed that Taguchi may still have been alive in 2000.