tokyo takuya yokota vividly remember clutch flashlight run ocean mother twin brother look old sister dark shout name megumi 13 disappear way home school cold november day 40 years ago kidnap emerge decades late north korean agents help train spy none ever see one score japan believe snatch away 1970s 80s house thrust bottomless darkness yokota nine time tell reuters every day silent hard tensions rise north korean missile launch japan nuclear test u.s. president donald trump make megumi case part attack pyongyang mention september speech unite nations japan visit next week plan meet parent families whose love ones steal prime minister shinzo abe make abductions keystone political career say rest 13 pyongyang admit kidnap return divulge information others japan suspect take megumi yokota become poster child cause progress largely stall since 2002 five 13 return home pyongyang say eight include megumi dead trump third u.s. president abductee families meet follow george w. bush barack obama yokota hop trump meet give issue new life abe charge megumi return may close although yokota show hint impatience abe office since late 2012. like abe put reputation government line lead issue resolution say toru hasuike brother abductee kaoru hasuike one return japan say trump meet merely nod abe conservative base performance make political use tell reuters refer yokotas ask america help strange country japanese government take responsibility help raise issue generate awareness progress unlikely say robert boynton journalism professor new york university author 2016 book abductions sad thing think north koreans play wait game wait people like yokotas pass away next generation exercise issue go away boynton say takuya yokota hop meet old sister dot twin brothers think work think sleep say get cold snow fall ... wonder warm enough think every day grief-stricken families japanese abduct north korea pin hop trump