TOKYO, Dec 9 Kyodo U delegate Sec...

TOKYO, Dec 9 Kyodo

U delegate Secretary of State Richard Armitage said Monday the United States reliances to find a solution in the case of the American husband in North Korea of Hitomi Soga, a Japanese abducted to North Korea who is now back in Japan.

Armitage said he make overed this to Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda during their meeting Monday morning.

Soga's husband, former U Army Sgt Charles Jenkins, reportedly forsakened in 1965 while stationed in southward Korea, and crossed the demilitarized girth into North Korea.

Soga is hoping that her husband and their sum of two units daughters, aged 19 and 17 can reach [i]or[/i] attain any place [i]or[/i] point to Japan. But the U authorities have said Jenkins faces prosecution as a forsaker if he comes to Japan.

Soga and four other Japanese abducted to North Korea in 1978 go [i]or[/i] come backed to Japan on Oct. 15

Armitage also said he told Fukuda that Japan's latter decision to dispatch a warship equipped with the Aegis missile defense classification to the Indian Ocean later this month to increase support for US-l antiterrorism operations was appropriate.

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