AMERICAN SERVICEMAN CONFIRMED ALIVE IN NORTH KOREA!!! (BREAKING)

Associated Press ^ | 2 October 2002 | Yuri Kageyama

[AmericanInTokyo]

What a strange twist. Of course, North Korea is lying about how the various kidnapped Japanese (who were young) died in North Korea (natural disasters, suicides, car accidents, disease) and their bodies never found. This follows on the PFC JAMES T. WHITE case, a young Army soldier that defected in the DMZ in 1982, and then was reported by N. Korea to his parents has having died in a 'swimming accident' in the Pottangang River, his body never recovered. My theory--he freaked out and came to his senses and wanted to go home, and the KPA had no choice but to 'terminate his assignment'. "Body never found"--indeed.

[Iwentsouth]

Should be former US Serviceman.

I wonder how he came to marry a kidnapped woman? Was she brainwashed or a comfort woman for this disgusting traiter.

[Drango]

was one of four Americans who deserted their Army posts in

Who cares about him? I sure don't.

[VOA]

What a strange twist.

No kidding.
I about freaked out when reading the story of the Japanese girl (age 13?) that
the North Koreans say they snatched off the streets of Copenhagen while she was
on tour.

Given I grew up listening to the stories of a man who survived the march to Bataan
(my father's co-worker), I admit my first reflex was to say "now Japan knows how it feels
to be abused by a foreign power".
But I soon came to my senses and realized that we should simply give them
sympathy and say "welcome to the club" of peaceable countries abused by totalitarian @ssholes.

[Redbob]

F*ck Jenkins.

[dd5339]

Ping

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Sady, we find that every time the NK's want something, they give us the bones of US war dead.

[Poohbah]

Why should I care if this traitorous piece of s**t is alive?

[Publius6961]

I have no problem with these "disatisfied "americans".
At least they are consitent in their criticisms of their home country.

I wish more dissidents would do the same.

[hchutch]

Hear, hear.

"We have a treason warrant for Mr. Jenkins. Hand him over."

[rogerthedodger]

So that we can prepare the firing squad.

[Poohbah]

Why waste the ammunition? Just find a rope and a suitably tall tree.

[El Sordo]

Upon reading the title I thought this was a POW, not a traitorous bastard....

[Drango]

Apparently Jim McDermott meet a cute, Burka clad gal while he was in Bagdad. We can only hope he'll do the same as Jenkins.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Deserter or no deserter, the guy ('piece of s..t' as you say) needs to be repriated to face USA justice, and debriefing on the fates of other Americans up there. Of course, if we ever get him back, he would probably 'slip and fall on a mountain climbing expedition on the slopes of Mr. Kumgang, body never to be retrieved', according to the NKs....

[FormerLurker]

Why would an American serviceman want to "defect" to that rathole? It makes one wonder if he wan't in fact kidnapped himself, but they're claiming that he "defected" in order to save face. After a bit of brainscrubbing, I'm sure that he'd say whatever they tell him to say..

[AmericanInTokyo]

North Korea cannot be trusted on anything. Unless there were witnesses in the guys' unit that saw them walk willingly over the line (like Pfc White) or otherwise talk bolshevist crap in the quonset hut before going over, we can assume that the North Koreans could VERY WELL HAVE KIDNAPPED THEM somehow, precisely what they did to Japanese walking on beaches or making out in parking lots in Western Japan in the 1970s and 1980s. North Korea needed both international saavy spies, and English and Japanese instructors. Of course, due to brainwashing or threats of having their entire family wiped out if they returned to America, there will be no motivation for them to talk with US consular officials in Pyongyang if they were ever given the chance.

[marshmallow]

When I first saw the headline I thought this was about POWs or MIAs. Now I see it's really about deserters. These guys are voluntarily in Norh Korea. Good for them. Forty years in that hell-hole is punishment in itself.

What fools.

[AntiGuv]

That's exactly what I was thinking myself. I cannot conceive of any reason why an American serviceman would defect to North Korea. If the North Koreans can kidnap Japanese girls from Europe, it's certainly not strange to think that they can snatch the occasional soldier in the DMZ.

[pops88]

Why would an American serviceman want to "defect" to that rathole? It makes one wonder if he wan't in fact kidnapped himself, but they're claiming that he "defected" in order to save face.

No kidding. It's a real head scratcher.