Charles Jenkins, a US soldier who defected to North Korea in 1965 from the south expecting to be returned to the USA and ended up incarcerated there for four decades, has died. He was later forced to marry a Japanese abductee, who had been kidnapped to teach locals the language, and they fell in love, bonded by their hatred of their captors. Latterly both returned to Japan.
Born 18 February 1940 in North Carolina, he was a Sun Aquarius on one leg of a Yod sextile Saturn in forced-to-be-self-reliant Aries and both inconjunct Neptune which would tend to fog his rational thinking. Often this placing leads to a life of seclusion. He also had a trapped and frustrated Mars in Taurus square Pluto.
North Korea’s Saturn is exactly opposition his Sun, so not a place he warmed to; and his Mars square Pluto is entangled with the NK Mars in Scorpio opposition Node square Venus, which emphasises his anger.
His wife, Hitomi Soga, born 17 May 1959 and abducted when she was 19 with her mother, who has never been seen since, is a Sun Taurus opposition Jupiter in Scorpio. Her Jupiter would keep her husband’s spirits up and both of them with Fixed sign Suns would have endurance. Tr Saturn was square her Sun and her Jupiter when she was dragged away from home.
Her relationship chart with Charles has a possessive composite Sun trine Pluto and a heavily aspected Neptune, giving them the vision one day of freedom. Neptune isn’t always good in everyday living but for extraordinary circumstances can be a blessing.
I remember when he arrvied on the US base…he was astounded with how advanced tech had evolved. Some in the Armed Forces pushed for harsh punishment as a deserter and traitor.