Repatriation
Soga was one of a group of five Japanese abductees whom North Korea allowed to visit their homeland in September 2002. Though the trip was intended to be brief, she, like her four companions, never returned to North Korea. She and many Japanese called on North Korea to release family members who had been left behind. Soga was later reunited with her husband and two daughters in Jakarta, Indonesia, on July 9, 2004. The family came to Japan on July 18, 2004. Jenkins was court-martialed and incarcerated for desertion at a U.S. military installation in Japan for 26 days, but then released. They now live on Sado Island in Soga's hometown where, according to media reports, the family has settled.
In October 2012, she plead to the North Korean government for the release of her mother and other abductees.
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