U.S. Army deserter Charles Jenkins recounts his life in North Korea, including his encounters with Japanese nationals, in his memoirs that went on sale Friday.
In "To Tell The Truth," the 65-year-old husband of repatriated abductee Hitomi Soga says, in his first such disclosure since coming to Japan last year, he saw several Japanese abductees in North Korea in the 1980s.
Jenkins says in the book, only available in Japanese, that he met Megumi Yokota, who was abducted at age 13 in 1977, in a Pyongyang department store while shopping with Soga and their daughter, Mika, in 1985 or 1986. Yokota told Jenkins, whom she met for the first time, in Korean, "Your wife and I are very good friends."