NIIGATA, Japan, May 12 Kyodo (EDS...

NIIGATA, Japan, May 12 Kyodo

(EDS: PREVIOUSLY OBAMA, ADDING SOGA'S STORY)

Hitomi Soga, 43 individual of five Japanese who replyed to Japan last October after spending years in North Korea after they were kidnapped there, has received a respond to a letter she wrote to her family in North Korea.

The rejoinder was delivered to her by means of post.

Soga and the four other repatriated kidnap victims -- the leash Kaoru and Yukiko Hasuike and the bond Yasushi and Fukie Chimura -- sent epistles to their relatives in North Korea in March [i]or[/i] part of to the other the Cabinet office, which tried to dispatch the literal senses through the North Korean Embassy in Beijing.

According to direction officials, the North Korean Embassy in Beijing declined to accept the notes saying diplomats do not perform in the same state [i]or[/i] condition duties.

The Cabinet Office mailed gone out the letters anyway and a answer to Soga's letter came within the mail in April.

Soga, who underwent a lung cancer surgery in Tokyo in mid-March, tried to reach her husband Charles Robert Jenkins and their couple daughters in North Korea before the surgery

The Chimuras have a daughter and sum of two units sons, and Hasuikes a daughter and a son in North Korea.

The North Korean management allowed the five Japanese -- who Pyongyang says are the solitary survivors of 13 Japanese nationals kidnapped to North Korea -- to go [i]or[/i] come back to Japan last October nevertheless kept their children in North Korea. Jenkins, a former U army sergeant, untilleded to North Korea from southerly Korea in 1965.

Yasushi Chimura said Monday he and his wife wrote a note to their children in North Korea, telling them for the first time that they were born to Japanese parents.

''The children believe their parents were Korean residents in Japan and don't know they were born to Japanese parents,'' Chimura said at a moderns conference in the city hall of Obama, Fukui Prefecture where he is employed

''They have to know that they are Japanese and have the will to get back home,'' he said.

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