U.S. deserter starts anew

[True_Blue]

SADO, Japan - Trapped for nearly 40 years in North Korea and then court-martialed for deserting from the U.S. Army, Charles Jenkins is focused on an ordinary life: getting a steady job on the remote Japanese island that is now his home, making friends, visiting his elderly mother.

"The people have accepted me," Jenkins, 64, said Monday in his first news conference since being released from a military brig in November. "I believe I could live in Sado just like any other Japanese."

But the story of Jenkins and his Japanese wife is anything but ordinary.

In 1965, Jenkins, then a sergeant, fled to North Korea across the Demilitarized Zone, fearing service in Vietnam. Once there, he was forced to teach English to military cadets and used as a propaganda tool, playing a malevolent American in at least one film.
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http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0206deserter06.html

[bluestateguy]

1. Any news on Jeremy Hinzman?

Has Canadian Immigration come back with a ruling yet on his case. He is the soldier who served a tour in Afghanistan and was scheduled for deployment to Iraq, but he slipped into Canada before he was scheduled to leave.

[Carl Brennan]

2. Sheet it ain't an Oscar, but he is definitely an

experienced actor. Maybe he could go to Hollywood and do a movie about his experiences. :evilgrin: