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  • Last U.S. Defector Said Living in N. Korea(to be featured in a British documentary)

    08/16/2004 4:25:50 AM PDT · by TigerLikesRooster · 10 replies · 706+ views
    AP via Yahoo! News ^ | 08/16/04 | STEPHANIE HOO
    Last U.S. Defector Said Living in N. Korea 58 minutes ago By STEPHANIE HOO, Associated Press Writer BEIJING - The man believed to be the last American defector still living in North Korea (news - web sites) says he has no plans to return home, according to two British filmmakers who interviewed him for a documentary. James Dresnok was a U.S. Army private when he crossed over the Stalinist state in 1962. He lives now in the North Korean capital Pyongyang, where he says he likes his "simple life," said filmmaker Nicholas Bonner, who met him there in May. "To...
  • US Army Defector (from 60s) Surfaces in Communist Pyongyang! (I've Got Photo)

    11/14/2002 7:43:20 AM PST · by AmericanInTokyo · 21 replies · 957+ views
    Nikkan Fuji (from Weekly Friday Magazine) ^ | 15 November 2002 | Nikkan Fuji (in Japanese)
    Photo of Sgt. Robert Jenkins, U.S. Army, of North Carolina, who defected to the D.P.R.K.(some think actually 'kidnapped' as others have been) and who surfaced in Pyongyang, North Korea today where he has lived and worked for years as an English translator, teacher, (some say spy trainer) and actor for the North Korean. (Note the Kim il Sung Worker's Party badges on the lapels).Jenkins and his two daughters, also in the photo, performed a staged crying act set up by the N. Korean foreign ministry and covered by Japanese journalists, where they demanded Jenkin's wife (Japanese) and the mother...