[kenth]

He says he thought he would be sent to Russia and exchanged in some Cold War swap. But he was wrong. "It was the worst mistake anyone ever made," he tells Pelley.


Doh!

[SamAdams76]

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.

First-class, one-way tickets for these dopes. One of the best uses of taxpayer money I can think of.

[MEG33]

Sob..NOT.

[Caipirabob]

I suppose it beats a hanging. Traitor.

[GreatOne]

It would be nice if this horrific account could shine the light of truth onto some of these radical, dumbass Leftists we have walking around today about what true Communism/dictatorship is all about. Never heard of 60 Minutes? Didn't have it confirmed that we had gone to the moon? Surprised at black cops and women in the military? Looking to Life as his major media outlet? Simply amazing and appalling that something like this still goes on in the world today.

At least it appears that his stupidity had a redeeming value - his helping his wife make it through her own hell living in North Korea.

[GreatOne]

It would be nice if this horrific account could shine the light of truth onto some of these radical, dumbass Leftists we have walking around today about what true Communism/dictatorship is all about. Never heard of 60 Minutes? Didn't have it confirmed that we had gone to the moon? Surprised at black cops and women in the military? Looking to Life as his major media outlet? Simply amazing and appalling that something like this still goes on in the world today.

At least it appears that his stupidity had a redeeming value - his helping his wife make it through her own hell living in North Korea.

[proud American in Canada]

I'm having a hard time feeling sorry for the guy.

He made his choice.

[Beckwith]

I have absolutely no sympathy for this renegade.

I sincerely hope the remainder of his life is equally miserable.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

They should send him to Harvard and Yale to talk to the students
about what Communism is like in real life. Should be a real eye-opener.

[ruiner]

He was forced, FORCED I SAY, to have sex with that woman! He tried to stop, but they beat him soooo badly he was forced to comply!

[DerekinTurk]

Wait Wait Wait....
One thing that no one has touched on yet...

Why did we let him come back?

[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.

[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..