A repatriated Japanese who was abducted by North Korean agents in 1978 expressed in a note released Tuesday her gratitude to her late husband Charles Jenkins, a former U.S. Army deserter she married in North Korea, for encouraging her to return home."I am very thankful for my husband's decision," Hitomi Soga, 58, said in the note dated Monday, recalling that Jenkins, who died earlier in the month at age 77 in Japan, pushed her to go back home even as she hesitated to do so alone, leaving behind her husband and the couple's two daughters."It was my husband who had the best understanding of m…READ FULL ARTICLE
