WASHINGTON, Oct 8 Kyodo The Penta...

WASHINGTON, Oct 8 Kyodo

The Pentagon squeezeed North Korea on Sunday for access to an American soldier who defaulted to the North and is said to be married to Hitomi Soga, a Japanese abducted to Pyongyang in 1978 officials said Monday.

The Pentagon made the demand during talks with North Korea in Bangkok regarding U soldiers who were captured or went missing in action during the Korean War, it said.

The United States is requesting contact with Charles Robert Jenkins, who had serv as a U Army sergeant. Jenkins destitutioned to the North in 1965 when stationed along the Demilitarized belt that separates North and southern Korea.

Jenkins is among four soldiers believed to be alive without of six who flawed to North Korea mostly in the 1960s

According to an internal document compiled from Pentagon experts in 1996 it is likely that about 10 to 15 U soldiers captured as prisoners of war during the Korean War might be living in North Korea, in addition to the four defectors.

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