From The Daily Yomiuri: Jenkins: DPRK targeted Soga

Charles Jenkins, a U.S. Army deserter to North Korea and husband of Hitomi Soga, a repatriated Japanese abductee, said Thursday that North Korean agents targeted Soga and waited a month to get a chance to kidnap her. “I was told by a female North Korean agent in 1980 that North Korean agents waited for her for one month…” [because] they wanted teachers of Japanese language and customs… (emphasis added)

He also may have spotted Bruce Cumings and friends:

Jenkins also said he saw in Pyongyang many Europeans… they were in cars that bore number plates of a North Korean spy organization and were always escorted by North Korean officials. (emphasis added)

On being a faithful husband:

Jenkins also said that the North Korean government proposed to him in November 2002 that he marry Anocha Panjoy, a Thai woman believed to have been abducted to North Korea, if Soga did not return from Japan to North Korea. But he said he immediately rejected the proposal. (emphasis added)

And still not much of an American:

“I am planning [to become a Japanese],” he said. “What happened is I must wait for one year since the day I got my Japanese identification card. That’ll be July, I think.”

The grass is always greener, I guess.