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...Despite the Americans' penchant for freedalisms, the North Koreans were, after seven years, evidently pleased with their behavior and apparent indoctrination. In 1972, the four received North Korean citizenship ("Whether we wanted it or not," says Jenkins) and were ordered to start teaching English at a military school in Pyongyang, run by the party's Reconnaissance Bureau. Jenkins taught three 90-minute classes a day, 10 to 15 days a month. There were about 30 students in each class. "They wanted us to teach them American pronunciation," he says, a prospect that seems amusing considering many Americans would have trouble...
...might be imagined, these unions weren't love stories in any traditional sense. In Jenkins' case, the government in 1980 brought a young Japanese nurse to his door, instructing him to teach her English. Hitomi Soga, 19 years Jenkins' junior, had been abducted from her home on Sado Island in Japan two years earlier. Jenkins says they quickly fell in love, and that his feelings for Soga saved his life. "When I met her," Jenkins says, "my life changed a lot. Me and her together?I knew we could make it in North Korea. And we did. Twenty-two years...
...years ago. The breakthrough was Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il (the son and successor of Kim Il Sung) in Pyongyang. Kim confirmed Japan's long-held suspicion that North Korea had been kidnapping Japanese citizens and forcing them to teach at its spy schools. Soga, Jenkins' wife, was acknowledged to be among the abductees. After the summit, she and the four others Pyongyang said were still alive returned to Japan for what was meant to be a 10-day visit. They never went back to Korea. Soga is viewed...
...continue to talk about his future,” Martin said. “He’ll have the opportunity to teach and very likely to continue to work with us on some of the education reforms...
...active supporter of dramatics at Harvard, Kiely offers his own opinion on the dramatic arts concentration: “Harvard has had for years the resources: the A.R.T.; junior and senior professors in different departments who have an interest in dramatic history; people in the English department who teach playwriting and screen writing; some very nice small theaters in the Houses; and the Agassiz and the Ex. What exists now is not put together by any particular group. There are a lot of courses in theater but they’re all over the place. A certain number of students...