The outcome of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's summit Saturday with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il elicited mixed emotions from the five former abductees.
Hopes had been high that Koizumi would secure the release of all eight family members of the five Japanese who were abducted in 1978 and repatriated in 2002.
However, Charles Robert Jenkins, the American husband of freed abductee Hitomi Soga, and their two daughters said they could not come to Japan at this time, as Jenkins, whom the United States alleges is an army deserter, could be extradited and court-martialed.
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