Jenkins surrenders to US base in Japan
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US Army Sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins has given himself up at an American base in Japan to face charges that he deserted to communist North Korea four decades ago while on patrol in South Korea.
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A former U.S. army sergeant who deserted to North Korea nearly four decades ago left a U.S. military base near Tokyo on Tuesday for a new life with his family in his Japanese wife's home town.
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Villagers on the remote Japanese isle of Sado have warmly welcomed U.S. Army deserter Charles Jenkins since he arrived with his Japanese wife and their two North Korea-born daughters a week ago, his wife said Tuesday.
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ACCUSED US Army deserter Charles Jenkins has said he will surrender to the American military and face charges outstanding since he vanished from his unit in South Korea nearly 40 years ago.
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CAMP ZAMA, Japan Sept. 11, 2004 - Forty years after allegedly defecting to North Korea, a frail Sgt. Charles Robert Jenkins reported to duty in Japan on Saturday, giving a simple salute to an Army marshal and surrendering to US authorities.
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SADO, Japan The American who deserted the Army and spent four decades in North Korea says today marks the next and last chapter in his life.
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For nearly four decades, he was a prisoner of the North Koreans. Then US Army deserter Charles Jenkins came to Japan this year, faced a court-martial and was sentenced to a month in jail.
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Charles Robert Jenkins pleaded guilty on Wednesday to deserting the United States Army in 1965, saying he had wanted to avoid &quot;hazardous&quot; duty on the Korean Peninsula and in Vietnam.
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Four decades after disappearing on patrol  in South Korea, U.S. Army Sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins looks  set to surrender on Saturday at an American military base in  Japan to face charges that he deserted to the communist North.
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CAMP ZAMA, Japan -- With a simple salute to an Army marshal early yesterday, a frail Sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins capped months of negotiations between Japan and North Korea and eased a diplomatic headache for Tokyo and Washington.
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Alleged U.S. Army deserter Charles Robert Jenkins said Wednesday he would surrender to U.S. military authorities to face charges he deserted his post along the demilitarized zone dividing north and south Korea in the 1960s.
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Japanese wife, Hitomi Soga, resolving a diplomatic headache for Japan and its close ally, the United States. Japan has asked for leniency out of sympathy for Jenkins wife.
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A former US Army sergeant who deserted to North Korea in 1965 has been released from a military prison in Japan. Charles Jenkins, 64, has served 24 days behind bars at the US Navy&#39;s Yokosuka base after leaving
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CAMP ZAMA, Japan - Frail but determined, Charles Jenkins surrendered to the United States on Saturday, nearly 40 years after the Army sergeant allegedly defected to North Korea and became a potent propaganda symbol for the isolated communist state.    Jenkins' surrender ends a bizarre, twisting saga that saw him vanish from his Army unit and resurface in propaganda films as various devilish - and inevitably American - characters...
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TOKYO -- Responding to Sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins's pledge to surrender after spending four decades in North Korea, US military officials say they are ready to put the frail 64-year-old back in uniform, give him a haircut, set him up in on-base housing -- and then try him for desertion.
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CAMP ZAMA, Japan -- Army deserter Charles Jenkins has started serving a 30-day sentence in Japan for abandoning his unit in 1965. Jenkins, 64, began serving his time at a US Naval detention center near Tokyo after tearfully pleading guilty to desertion.
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CAMP ZAMA, Japan : Charles Jenkins was dishonorably discharged from the US army Wednesday 39 years after he deserted to North Korea, tearfully telling a tribunal he was a young man scared of war and was kept in the enemy state through fear and beatings.