Jenkins became an unlikely celebrity in Japan after his wife, a victim of the regime´s cold war abductions, was freed in 2002Charles Jenkins, a US soldier who defected to North Korea and later married a Japanese victim of the regime´s cold war abductions, has died in Japan aged 77.Jenkins, a native of North Carolina, became an unlikely celebrity in Japan after his wife, Hitomi Soga, was freed by North Korea in 2002 and returned to her native country. Two years later, he and the couple´s two daughters, Mika and Brinda, joined Soga and settled in her hometown on the remote Sea of Japan island of Sado. Related: North Korea fortifies part of border where defector escaped Related: North Korea: Trump threatens `major sanctions` after latest missile test Continue reading...
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