A former U.S. soldier who deserted to North Korea and later married a Japanese woman who had been abducted by the isolated state died Monday, aged 77.Charles Jenkins, who married Hitomi Soga in 1980, died of arrhythmia, his supporters said Tuesday. The death of Jenkins, along with news that the 90-year-old mother of another abductee, Rumiko Masumoto, died on Tuesday, was a reminder of how years have passed with little progress on the abduction issue since Soga and four other Japanese citizens were repatriated in 2002."It is extremely regrettable that we did not realize the return of even on…READ FULL ARTICLE
