A note to Koichiro Izuka, the son of Japanese abduction victim Yaeko Taguchi, from KAL bomber Kim Hyun-hee, who claims to have known his mother. It reads, "Dear son, mother will come back. Please keep hope and courage. Looking forward to a day when we meet all together."

The sole surviving bomber of Korean Air passenger flight 858 had lunch and dinner with the families of two victims of North Korea's bizarre abduction campaign of the 1970s and 80s, whom she claims to have met in the North. Kim Hyun-hee says Yaeko Taguchi was her Japanese instructor when she trained as a spy, and Megumi Yokota, who has come to symbolize the ordeal of abduction victims for Japan, was an acquaintance.

Taguchi's son, Koichiro Izuka, first met Kim in March last year in the South Korean port city of Busan, where he showed the reformed agent a poster of photos of Japanese citizens who were or are suspected of having been abducted by North Korea. He told reporters Wednesday Kim told him she had seen some of the people on the poster in North Korea. Izuka pledged to tell Japanese government officials which ones Kim identified.

Meanwhile, the local media continued their close coverage of Kim's visit to Japan, where she is being given the red-carpet treatment. She is expected to travel to Tokyo on Thursday from former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's summer home in central Nagano Prefecture and may be taken on a helicopter tour of Mt. Fuji by the Japanese government.