U.S. ARMY DESERTER DESCRIBES 40 YEARS IN NORTH KOREA HELL (Drudge)

Drudgereport.com ^ | Oct 20 2005 | Drudge

[papertyger]

I say the United States should have a cultural exchange program with these communist cesspool countries. All the anti-American types over here should be granted free passage to countries like North Korea.

What*in*the*hail* are you talking about?

We've been doing that for years! What...you never heard of a "journalist" before?

Ain't done the first bit of good yet!

[REPANDPROUDOFIT]

Why did we let him come back?

Ditto. Doen't he have to face Desertion charges?

[putupjob]

Another fine examples of the wonderments of the WORKERS' PARADISE.

All America trashers should join these deserters in North Korea. It's such a wonderful and liberating way to spend your life. It is such an improvement over living here in totalitarian neo con America.

[stevem]

I won't watch 60 Minutes for any reason, even an interview that confirms common sense. I am curious, though not enough to watch. Was this interview conducted in Leavenworth Prison?

[rcocean]

I almost sorry for him - he's so stupid.

He drinks 10 beers and then WALKS through a MINEFIELD AT NIGHT.

Why? To go to North Korea!

Didn't he know about about how US POW's were treated during the Korean War?!

The man's a living duplicate of Homer Simpson.

[glorgau]

I have absolutely no sympathy for this renegade.

He may have done the the crime, and although he didn't intend it, he most certainly did the time. 40 years hard labor.

[Jet Jaguar]

Army Deserter Charles Jenkins Apologizes for Deserting Army for North Korea

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1427148/posts

Army Deserter Recalls Abuse in N. Korea

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1506295/posts

Deserter regrets 40 years in N.Korea

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1295710/posts

US deserter sentenced after 39 years in N. Korea

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1268573/posts

Four decades after he vanished into North Korea, an American soldier today pleaded guilty before a US military court to desertion and tearfully recounted how depression and fear of death drove him to defect.

Sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins, now a frail 64-year-old, was given a light 30-day jail term in a case that had pitted American demands for justice with Tokyo’s call for leniency so Jenkins could settle down in Japan with his Japanese wife.

In gripping court-martial testimony that shed light on a long-standing Cold War mystery, Jenkins said that he never intended to stay in North Korea, and detailed the harsh treatment - including beatings - he was subject to since defecting to the Stalinist state in 1965.

Jenkins, in full military dress for the proceedings on a US Army base outside Tokyo, boldly owned up to his crimes.

From the last article. He got off with minimal punishment.

[sgtbono2002]

He made his own bed. Screw him and the horse he rode in on.

[BillyBonebrake]

Some folks like to say stupidity should be painful. In Sgt. Jenkins case, it worked out that way. No sympathy.

[BillyBonebrake]

Some folks like to say stupidity should be painful. In Sgt. Jenkins case, it worked out that way. No sympathy.

[Labyrinthos]

He says he was severely punished for talking back. "That's the worst beating I ever got -- over that," he tells Pelley, showing a scar where he says his teeth came through his lower lip. Worse still, says Jenkins, was the pain he endured when someone saw his U.S. Army tattoo.Ê He says the North Koreans held him down and cut the words, "U.S. Army," off with a scalpel and scissors -- without giving him any painkiller. "They told me the anesthetic was for the battlefield," says Jenkins, "It was hell."

But at least he wasn't forced to wear panties on his head.

[KarinG1]

He deserted during a war and went over to the enemy. If it was up to me he'd be in an American prison with a cell mate named Bubba telling him when to have sex. I have no sympathy for traitors.

[newsgatherer]

That life included forced studying of the writings of the communist dictator Kim Il Sung. He says he and three other American deserters were forced to study eight hours a day for seven years. The studying was imposed by communist government handlers called "leaders." They also assigned him a Korean woman, with whom he was supposed to have sex twice a month. "The leaders almost tell her when to do it, and I got in a big fight one time over it," recalls Jenkins. "I told [the leader], 'It's none of his business if I want sleep with her. She wants to sleep -- we sleep.' 'No -- two times a month'" He says he was severely punished for talking back. "That's the worst beating I ever got -- over that," he tells Pelley, showing a scar where he says his teeth came through his lower lip.

Ah, a picture of life under kerry, kenndy, snowe and susie collins, what bliss, what..

[TomGuy]

Yeh, but the NK's didn't put women's panties on his head.

We know how much of an atrocity that is---thanks to the MSM's coverage of Abu Ghraib.


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[bmwcyle]

Send him one way on the Code Pink's Christmas Cuba trip. I'll pay for the ticket.

[exDemMom]

Didn't he know about about how US POW's were treated during the Korean War?!

It is a hallmark of people taken in by leftist propaganda that they completely dismiss troubling facts, e.g. the murders of tens of millions of people in Communist dictatorships, as Capitalist propaganda designed to turn people against the idea of a socialist utopia.

[Lazamataz]

I have very limited sympathy. He made a bad choice, and consequences often come from bad choices.

[Fred Hayek]

A lot of the traitors who stand at Snelling and Summit (St. Paul, MN) should really move to the paradise of DPRK. What the hey, some are already on the DPRK payroll (Code Pinkos, A.N.S.W.E.R., even saw one dinosaur with a Communist Party USA button).

[Stonewall Jackson]

One of my friends recently returned from Korea and he told me that falling asleep along the DMZ is one of the worst mistakes (and quite possibly your last) you could make. Apparently getting skunk drunk there is a pretty bad idea as well.

[Kurt_Hectic]

Agree... I feel sorry for the guy... An ubelievable story that he has an obligation to tell over and over again to those who believe that communism is the way.. NK is by far the worst place in the world..