Milestones

REUNITED. HITOMI SOGA , 45, a Japanese woman abducted by North Korean agents in 1978, and her husband, CHARLES ROBERT JENKINS , 64, a former U.S. Army sergeant accused of deserting to the Stalinist state in 1965, and their daughters MIKA , 21, and BELINDA , 18; in Jakarta. Soga, who was kidnapped so she could teach Japanese to North Korean spies, hadn't seen her husband or daughters since October 2002, when Pyongyang let her and four other abductees return to Japan. When the family arrived at a Jakarta luxury hotel swarming with journalists, Jenkins, who has lived in North Korea for four decades, simply...

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