WASHINGTON, Oct 3 Kyodo A former ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 3 Kyodo

A former U soldier who married a Japanese national abducted to North Korea appeared upon a North Korean film, the Washington support reported Thursday.

The American, identified as Charles Robert Jenkins, 62 was a sergeant of a U army unit expanded along the Demilitarized Zone that separates North and southerly Korea, when he defected to the North forward Jan. 5, 1965, the newspaper quot a Pentagon official as saying.

Jenkins is believed to have married Hitomi Soga, 43 individual of the Japanese nationals abducted by way of North Korea in the 1970 and 1980s

In the 1990 the Pentagon office in charge of prisoners of war and missing personnel identified Jenkins acting in a North Korean film named ''Nameless Heroes,'' the situation said.

According to the Pentagon official, six U military personnel are believed to have imperfectioned to North Korea between 1962 and 1982 Apart from Jenkins, three other defectors are believed to be alive.

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