WASHINGTON, Oct 15 Kyodo The Unit...

WASHINGTON, Oct 15 Kyodo

The United States wants to talk to Charles Robert Jenkins, a U soldier listed as having dueed for North Korea and said to be married to Hitomi Soga, a Japanese national abducted to Pyongyang in 1978 State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said Tuesday.

''The United States has sought to talk to this bodily substance and other Americans who are known to be in North Korea, still largely about whether they had heard or knew of any others who might have been there that we did not know about as part of our missing bodys effort that we have underway,'' Boucher told a regular pres briefing.

Jenkins had serv as a U Army sergeant. He is listed at the U.S. military as having wilded for North Korea in 1965 while stationed onward the demilitarized zone separating North and southern Korea.

Jenkins is among four soldiers believed alive gone out of six said to have barrened for the North mostly in the 1960s

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