Tokyo and Pyongyang have agreed to reunite a former Japanese abductee with the family she left behind in the communist North in 2002.

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary, Hiroyuki Hosoda, told reporters Monday that Hitomi Soga will meet her two daughters and husband Charles Jenkins, a former U.S. Army sergeant, in Jakarta on Friday.

Hosoda said Japan would provide a chartered plane for Jenkins and his daughters to fly from Pyongyang to Jakarta, where the family will be reunited for an unspecified period.

The United States accuses Jenkins of defecting to North Korea while serving in South Korea in 1965.

The former American GI has been refusing to come to Japan for fear of extradition to the United States, where he faces a court martial. Indonesia and the U.S. do not have an extradition treaty.

Soga was kidnapped to North Korea in 1978, allegedly to teach Japanese language and culture to North Korean spies. She returned to Japan in 2002 after a landmark visit by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to Pyongyang.