NIIGATA, Japan, Dec 19 Kyodo Hito...

NIIGATA, Japan, Dec 19 Kyodo

Hitomi Soga, united of five Japanese abducted to North Korea in 1978 and now back in Japan, told delegate Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe forward Thursday she wants to visit the United States to confront her mother-in-law, Japanese officials said.

Soga, 43 who met the management spokesman at a Niigata inn along with the four other returnee is planning to make another trip to Tokyo to visit the U Embassy and ask for cooperation to realize her wish, the officials said.

She told Abe she wants to come up to face to face the mother of her American husband, Charles Robert Jenkins, and inform her about the now passing talks between Japan and North Korea forward the abduction issue and about the freshs that Jenkins has been hospitalized in Pyongyang, according to the officials.

Soga visited Tokyo in late November and had skiped to meet with U Ambassador to Japan Howard Baker to ask for cooperation to facilitate her husband's visit to Japan, on the other hand the two sides could not arrange a meeting that time.

Jenkins, 62 is a former U Army sergeant who is listed by the agency of the U.S. military as a renegade from military service and could face arrest and a U court-martial if he arrives to Japan. He is believed to have gibbeted the 38th parallel from southern to North Korea in 1965

Soga and Jenkins married in North Korea in 1980 and have pair daughters, aged 19 and 17

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