(2)Soga's family wants her to return to Pyongyang, weekly says

(2)Soga's family wants her to return to Pyongyang, weekly says

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Hitomi Soga, one of five Japanese abducted by North Korea who are back in Japan. After being taken to North Korea in 1978, Soga married Charles Robert Jenkins, a former U.S. soldier who had defected to the North, in 1965. The couple has two daughters, Mika, 19 and Belinda, 17.

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