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<div>Charles Jenkins reportedly defected to North Korea in 1964 (or
1965) upon learning</div>
<div>that he was to be shipped off to Vietnam. He is originally
from North Carolina.</div>
<div>(His family claims that he was kidnapped and then brainwashed, as
he would never</div>
<div>betray his country.) While in North Korea he played the
role of the evil American</div>
<div>in a number of North Korean films. He also taught English.
It was as a teacher that</div>
<div>he met Hitomi Soga, a Japanese from Sato island who was kidnapped
by North Korean</div>
<div>agents along with her mother at the age of 19 in the 1970s.
Soga was returned to Japan along</div>
<div>with the other abductees following Japanese Prime Minister
Koizumi Junichiro's</div>
<div>trip to Pyongyang in October 2002. Jenkins and their two
daughters could have</div>
<div>traveled to Japan with the other five children last month but
fear of court martial</div>
<div>by the United States military prevented him from doing so.
His two daughters decided to</div>
<div>remain with him. A meeting was arranged in Jakarta (after
involved parties nixed</div>
<div>China--it does, after all, have a direct train route to Pyongyang
was the reason given) as Indonesia</div>
<div>does not have an extradition agreement with the United States.
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<div>More information is no doubt available on the web
somewhere.</div>
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<div>Mark Caprio (caprio@rikkyo.ne.jp)</div>
<div>Rikkyo University</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Dear Korea Studies List,</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>A few days ago Reuters reported a
man being reunited with his wife in Indonesia. He was a GI who
is thought to have defected to North Korea during the Korean War.
Has anyone heard of this man? Is anything else known about him
and his family?</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>see website: <a
href=
"http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=5614720§ion=news"><span
></span
>http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=<span
></span>5614720§ion=news</a></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Thank you.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Tracy Stober</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>University of Washington</blockquote>
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