Japan’s NHK says former North Korean agent Kim Hyun-hee has expressed wishes to meet the parents of Megumi Yokota, a Japanese woman who was abducted by North Korea over a quarter-century ago.

In her interview Friday with the Japanese broadcaster, which was her first interview in 12 years, Kim said that she is hoping to meet Yokota’s parents to tell them everything she knows about their daughter. Yokota was taken to the North in 1977 at the age of 13 and reportedly taught Japanese to North Korean agents.

Kim, who now lives in South Korea, said that while she was in the North she heard about Yokota in detail from a fellow female North Korean agent who worked closely with Yokota.

Yokota’s parents believe their daughter is still alive after DNA tests of ashes the North sent claiming they belonged to Yokota in 2004 were confirmed to have belonged to someone else.

Kim also talked about another Japanese abductee, Yaeko Taguchi, who was taken in the late 1970s and taught Kim the Japanese language and culture.

NHK noted that South Korea sentenced Kim to death in 1989 for her role in the 1987 bombing of a Korean Air jet. She was later pardoned.