Posted on 08/16/2013 2:24:19 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
We all do stupid things when we’re drunk, but among bad decisions, this one deserves special distinction: on the night of January 4, 1965, U.S. Army Sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins pounded 10 beers, deserted his infantry company at the edge of the Korean Demilitarized Zone, walked alone across a minefield, and defected to North Korea. He was thrown into a chilly, spartan house (he tried, unsuccessfully, to leave) and forced to study the works of the North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung for 11 hours every day. By 1972, he could recite Kim’s core principles by heart in Korean. That year, he was forcibly naturalized as a North Korean citizen. He went on to work as an English teacher, a translator, and an actor, under 24-hour surveillance and conditions of near-starvation.
Jenkins would spend nearly 40 years in North Korea, a state that he says bred foreigners like animals, for the purpose of recruiting their ethnically ambiguous offspring for espionage. He himself had two daughters by Hitomi Soga, a Japanese woman whom North Korean agents kidnapped in 1978, apparently to enslave her as a teacher of Japanese language and customs for North Korean spies. Soga, who is 19 years Jenkins’s junior, was freed in 2002 when Kim Jong Il attempted détente with Japan. Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi personally ensured that Jenkins and their daughters, Mika and Brinda, now 30 and 28, could join her. After Jenkins finally left North Korea in 2004, at age 64, the U.S. Army threw him in the stockade for 24 days and discharged him dishonorably. But since then he has lived a quiet life on Sado, his wife’s home island, a speck in the Sea of Japan that has served historically as a Japanese Elba, a secluded site for the exile of political undesirables.
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He paid pretty dearly in NK; way more than he would have in Leavenworth.
Jenkins’ ex-co-worker is the one you really have to watch out for:
That guy had a white son, there, who was bred to a Marxist black Ethiopian, or some such. So this mulatto is 100% North Korean:
Lessay you were on the lookout for an NK plane bomber —would you be looking for a MULATTO..?
Not in 100 years.
The most dangerous NK’ans are the handful of honky ones.
If that rodeo clown gets caught in that mask again he’ll have to read the works of the Barry Soetero for 11 hours every day and forced to breed with Joy Behar.
Interesting story, say, how old is BHO anyway??
And Jenkins’ ex-co-worker would be whom?
Yeah, some mistakes you make are punishments in and of themselves.
I saw some low grade movie about something like this last year.
And listen to the audio books all night.
10 beers made him defect to NK?
10 beers isn’t enough to even get me to look at an ugly woman at closing time much less defect to NK.
Bet it was his last drunk.
OMG! Brain bleach!
Worst ever “Hold muh beer...”
Used to hear tales of this moron when I was on the DMZ.
Interesting to know ‘the rest of the story’.
I’m sure his story will remain “alive” there as long as we’re there.
Lead, Follow, or Get out of the way...he lead. /s
Across a minefield no less. God looks out for fools and drunks.
Breed with Joy, Behar? Must be a new term. Is one of the two blokes somenow planning on getting a sex-change operation?
In a few years, they’ll be making them study Emperor Zero’s works 11 hours a day at Leavenworth.
I believe the term is “creepy ass cracker”
James Dresnok, I think. I believe he is finally in poor health now.
He is fat, lives in Pyomyang, enjoys fishing and is a dead-end, true-believer.
He’s basically a colossal jerk.
If that rodeo clown gets caught in that mask again he’ll have to read the works of the Barry Soetero for 11 hours every day and forced to breed with Joy Behar.
Sanity is not an option when presented with such a threat.
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