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Abductee Soga Reunited with Her Family.
(From Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry (JJTI))
Repatriated Japanese abductee Soga Hitomi was reunited with her ailing American husband, Charles Robert Jenkins, and their two daughters in Jakarta, Indonesia, on July 9 for the first time since Soga returned to Japan from North Korea 21 months earlier.
Soga, who had arrived in Jakarta the day before, greeted Jenkins and daughters Mika and Belinda at the airport as they flew in from Pyongyang aboard a Japanese government-chartered plane and climbed down the ramp. Soga, 45, hugged and kissed 64-year-old Jenkins, and the first words she uttered were apologies in Japanese. She then hugged Mika, 21, and Belinda, 18, for five minutes after offering apologies in Korean. Belinda was heard saying "Mom!" in Korean.
The couple and their daughters stayed at a hotel in Jakarta for 10 days to talk about their future, which is clouded by the U.S. threat to court-martial Jenkins, an accused military deserter, once he is taken into custody. The family, facing his deteriorating health, came to Japan for his medical treatment on July 18 after the U.S. government indicated that it will not seek his handover while he remains in hospital. Jenkins, who defected to North Korea in 1965, initially refused to go to Japan for fear of extradition to the United States under a bilateral treaty. Indonesia has no such extradition treaty with the United States. The Japanese government is negotiating with Washington on how to deal with the Jenkins issue in order to ensure that the family will live permanently in Japan.
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