被綁日本女孩的父母首次與外孫女見面

The parents of a Japanese girl who was abducted by North Korea nearly four decades ago on Monday said meeting with her daughter was 'miraculous' and 'a dream come true.'

差不多40年前被綁架至朝鮮的日本女孩橫田惠(Megumi Yokota)的父母週一講述了他們此前與橫田惠女兒見面的情況。他們說，這次見面是一個奇蹟，他們的夙願終於得以實現。1977年，13歲的橫田惠被朝鮮特工綁走。

Shigeru and Sakie Yokota, the parents of Megumi Yokota, who was 13 when she was snatched by North Korean operatives in 1977, met their North Korean-born granddaughter for the first time last week in Mongolia.

橫田滋(Shigeru Yokota)和橫田早紀江(Sakie Yokota)這對老夫妻上週在蒙古與他們在朝鮮出生的外孫女金惠敬(Kim Eun Kyung)見了第一面。

'We were very glad that this came to be, in a quiet manner, as a family, ' Ms. Yokota said during a news conference where the couple reflected on their meeting with Kim Eun Kyung, whom Japanese officials described as the daughter of Megumi.

橫田早紀江在新聞發佈會上講述了他們與金惠敬見面時情形。她說，他們感到很高興，這次見面就像家人的團聚，安靜祥和。據日本官員稱，金惠敬(Kim Eun Kyung)是橫田惠的女兒。

'She looked very similar to what Megumi looked like,' Ms. Yokota said, adding that Ms. Kim treated them with her own cooking during the meeting.

橫田早紀江說，金惠敬看上去很像橫田惠，見面的時候她還親自下廚招待了他們夫婦。

North Korea in 2002 acknowledged abducting Megumi and 12 other Japanese, and said she died in 1994 after marrying a South Korean abductee and giving birth to a girl. The Yokotas haven't accepted the explanation, and they have demanded that North Korea return their daughter. Ms. Yokota said no new details of Megumi were revealed, saying she didn't ask since she did not want political affairs to come in the way of the meeting.

2002年，朝鮮承認綁架了橫田惠和其他12名日本人，並稱橫田惠與一位同樣被綁架的韓國人結婚，生下了一個女兒，之後於1994年去世。橫田夫婦拒絕接受朝鮮方面的解釋，他們要求朝鮮歸還他們的女兒。橫田早紀江說，朝鮮方面沒有披露關於橫田惠的新細節，她也沒有作出要求，因爲她不希望政治事務妨礙他們與外孫女的見面。

'We've decided to believe that she must be doing fine,' Ms. Yokota said. She said Ms. Kim, her husband, and their 10-month-old daughter was present at the meeting held in Ulaanbaatar between March 10-14.

橫田早紀江說，我們決定相信她還活得好好的。她還說，金惠敬夫妻和他們10個月大的女兒參加了3月10日至14日在蒙古烏蘭巴托舉行的會面。

North Korea abducted dozens, or possibly hundreds of Japanese in the 1970s and 1980s when Pyongyang sought citizens of various nationalities to train North Korean agents for overseas espionage activities. The cases have become one of Japan's immovable talking points in its dealings with the hermit nation.

上個世紀70至80年代，朝鮮綁架了十幾名、甚至可能是數百名日本人。當時朝鮮抓來了各個國家的居民爲其情報機構從事海外間諜活動進行培訓。橫田惠被綁案已經成爲日本與朝鮮交往時一個無法避免的話題。

The Yokota's search for Megumi, in particular, has captured the hearts of the Japanese, and she has been subject of various documentaries and remains the poster child for the campaign by abductees' families and support groups.

橫田早紀江尋找女兒的故事牽動了無數日本人的心。橫田惠成爲了多個紀錄片講述的對象，而且她依然是被綁者家屬和支持團體發起的活動中的海報人物。

'The government has been working to realize the meeting from a humanitarian perspective,' Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters Monday, saying that news of the meeting 'brought a lump to my throat.' The abductions issue has been one of Mr. Abe's top priorities that he has vowed to solve during his tenure.

日本首相安倍晉三(Shinzo Abe)週一向記者表示，日本政府一直在從人道主義角度努力實現這次會面。他說，橫田夫婦與外孫女見面的消息讓他哽咽。安倍晉三此前承諾，解救被朝鮮綁架的日本人將是他任期內首先要解決的問題之一。