[John123]

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?

[sinanju]

“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?”

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He was sure that his next assignment would be Viet Nam.

[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.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

He deserted because he was afraid of going to Vietnam.

Often in cases like these, people will say “He can go to hell”.

Well he did, for just under 40 years. And he has to live with the consequences he made as a stupid, cowardly, drunk young man.

And those 40 years, and him being without a country or a real home, are enough punishment in this life for that stupid, cowardly decision in my opinion.