[Ticonderoga34]

Normally soldiers desert to avoid fighting... but in 1965... it was just a police action in Korea... was he a communist? Wonder why he left in 2004?

I saw a TV show about this guy and it stated he deserted in 1965 to avoid getting sent to Vietnam. Vietnam was starting to heat up in 1965.

I forget the reason why he left North Korea in 2004.

[GovernmentShrinker]

He wasn’t allowed to leave before 2004. North Korea isn’t the sort of place you can wander into, and then just wander out again when you realize that wandering in was a big mistake. This guy’s story is more complicated because the North Koreans (after imprisoning and brainwashing him for many years) arranged for him to marry a Japanese woman whom they had abducted from Japan, and they had two daughters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Robert_Jenkins