Mother and ‘abducted’ son meet in Korean reunions

A SOUTH Korean man allegedly abducted by the North met his mother for the first time in more than 25 years yesterday, a highly anticipated reunion that could not only shed light on his ordeal but help resolve a Japanese mystery.

Kim Young-nam and his 78-year-old mother cried and hugged each other at the North’s Diamond Mountain resort, amid other reunions of Koreans divided between the North and South.

“I am very happy to see you are so healthy,” Mr Kim, 45, told his mother, Choi Gye-wol, who sat in a wheelchair, according to television footage.