Where is Megumi?

Megumi's mother holds up pictures of her lost daughter. Photograph:Katsumi Kasahara/AP

Six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear programme may have broken down over a delay in unfreezing bank accounts in Macao, but Japan has other unfinished business with Kim Jong-il - and her name is Megumi Yokota.

Japan says it won't provide energy aid to Pyongyang until it resolves the abductions of Megumi and more than 10 other Japanese citizens it says were forcibly taken to North Korea during the cold war.