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.
Still waiting for the treason trials for Hanoi Jane and Kerry.
Idiot should have been shot for treason, cowardice and desertion in time of war.
Not that it would make a difference to such a clown, but I hope he also gets to spend the rest of his life as a dishonorably discharged creature.