Former Japanese abductee, Hitomi Soga, is to be reunited with her American husband in Jakarta, Indonesia Friday.

Charles Jenkins and his two daughters left Pyongyang earlier in the day aboard a chartered flight arranged by the Japanese government.

The United States says the 64-year-old Jenkins defected to North Korea while serving in South Korea in 1965. He has been refusing to return to Japan for fear of extradition to the United States where he would a court martial.

Soga was repatriated to Japan two years ago after being abducted to the North in 1978.

Soga spent nearly a quarter-century in North Korea before the country's leader, Kim Jong-il, agreed in a summit with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in 2002 to allow her and four other abductees to return home.

The reunion was arranged in Jakarta by Japanese and North Korean officials as Indonesia has no extradition treaty with Washington.