The Japanese government is arranging a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and the parents of Megumi Yokota, who was kidnapped by North Korean agents in 1977, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Thursday.

The meeting will take place during an upcoming visit by the President to Japan and other East Asian countries in November.

Abe announced the plan during an election campaign speech in Niigata Prefecture, where Megumi and her family were living at the time of her abduction 40 years ago.

The Japanese Prime Minister said he proposed the meeting to