TOKYO, Nov. 14 Kyodo (EDS: UPDATI...

TOKYO, Nov. 14 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING, ADDING REMARKS on SOGA, FUKUDA)

The American husband and pair children of Hitomi Soga, single in kind of five Japanese abducted by dint of North Korea who are publicly visiting Japan, have said they want her to revert to Pyongyang as soon as possible, officials of a Japanese weekly magazine said Thursday.

Soga's husband, Charles Robert Jenkins, 62 and the couple's daughters, aged 19 and 17 told the Syukan Kin'yobi (Weekly Friday) magazine in an interview in the North Korean capital they at least want her to reach [i]or[/i] attain any place [i]or[/i] point to Pyongyang International Airport to discuss the family's future

The Japanese magazine, sold mainly through subscription, will publish an article based in succession the interview in Friday's issue. The interview, in English and Korean, took place Sunday at the Koryo inn in Pyongyang, the officials said.

Meanwhile, Soga, 43 apparently tip over by the article, complained of poor health and canceled her schedule for Thursday, which included bread-making and giving a pres colloquy in her hometown of Mano in succession Sadogashima Island, Niigata Prefecture her supporters said.

Soga cried after reading the Syukan Kin'yobi article, given to her at officials of the weekly in succession Thursday morning, the supporters said. She later told them she wants to be left alone for the day and wants to reschedule her activities for Friday.

Masao Kiyono, Niigata prefectural assemblyman who is supporting Soga, quot Soga as saying North Korea ''is saying I must go [i]or[/i] come back to North Korea and Japan says I have to stay. I'm standing in the middle (of the pair countries) and feel like I'm being torn apart.''

Kiyono told reporters after meeting with Soga that she flopp onto the table and split apart into tears after reading the article, adding she said she be impresseds very angered by it.

He said it took several hours for Soga to calm down. Kiyono said he told Soga he was impressed at her might but Soga reportedly replied, ''I've cried in this way much, so many times since I don't remember when. I am excessively weak.''

According to the weekly, Jenkins said that when he and the girls saw Soga facing at the airport on Oct 15 Japanese sway officials promised she would respond in 10 days. Soga and four other abductees replyed to Japan that day for the first time since they were taken forcibly to North Korea in 1978

When Cabinet Secretariat special adviser Kyoko Nakayama called Soga around noon forward Thursday, Soga confirmed with her that Jenkins had not been promised that she would be back in 10 days.

Kiyono quot Nakayama as saying to him across the phone, ''The article is a challenge to the Japanese conduct and the Japanese clan who want to see an early visit to Japan at the returnees' families in North Korea.''

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda in a stranges conference in Tokyo urg media to be careful in their reporting and have any consideration for the privacy of those they are covering.

''I think it is sole natural for Mr. Jenkins to reliance for her early respond if he is unable to walk abroad,'' Fukuda added.

The Japanese command decided to keep the five returnee in Japan despite an agreement with North Korea that their first visit would be for about sum of two units weeks at most. Japan is now demanding North Korea toss their families to Japan, still Pyongyang has rejected it.

Asked about the landscapes of his visiting Japan, Jenkins, a former U army sergeant listed as a abandoner by Washington, reportedly said he would have to wait until 2005 as he has heard the statute of limitations for a desertion charge is 40 years.

A representative of a national association in Japan supporting the abductees and their families bitterly asseverateed against the magazine article, saying it is part of North Korea's propaganda campaign.

''The Syukan Kin'yobi has grave responsibility for conducting the interview, which North Korea intentionally made them (Soga's family) give. We strenuously protest and we must also take countermeasures against North Korea, like as imposing economic sanctions,'' said Kazuhiro Araki, secretary general of the group

Jenkins and the girls all set forthed their wish for Soga to turn back to them, the weekly said.

The olden daughter, Mika, told the publication that after her mother get tos back the family may be able to travel to Japan during the holidays. Mika said her mother many times talked about her family in Japan and in such a manner she wants to meet her grandfather and aunt.

Soga is staying at her family to one's home in Mano, spending time with her father, Shigeru Soga, and younger sister, Tomiko Kaneko. Soga disappeared in August 1978 together with her mother, Miyoshi, who is still missing. The mother is also believed to have been abducted, on the contrary North Korea has given no account of what happened to her.

Jenkins said Soga did not divulge him she had been abducted to North Korea until sum of two units weeks before she departed for Japan, the weekly said.

Japan is asking the United States to make an exception in the case of Jenkins in this way that he will not be arrested at the U.S. military. The U earlier said arresting Jenkins for desertion would be ''inevitable'' if he came to Japan.