The mother of a girl who has come to symbolize Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea urged the government Wednesday to intensify efforts to return her daughter, as she voiced frustration at the lack of progress four decades after the teenager was kidnapped."Although she is in a country close to us, why can we not rescue her for such a long time?" Sakie Yokota, the 81-year-old mother of Megumi, who was forcibly taken at age 13, told a press conference on the 40th anniversary of her disappearance.(Supplied image)With dialogue on the abduction issue between Tokyo and Pyongyang stalled, Yok…READ FULL ARTICLE