Jenkins Gets 30 Days in Desertion Case
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Four decades after he vanished from his Army unit, a frail, tearful, 64-year-old American soldier pleaded guilty Wednesday to desertion, saying he wanted to avoid dangerous duty on the Korean peninsula and Vietnam.
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U.S. Army deserter Charles Jenkins will be released this week from a jail near Tokyo, six days earlier than planned, a media report said Thursday.
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SADO - Charles Jenkins, a former US Army sergeant jailed by the US military last month in Japan for deserting to North Korea nearly 40 years ago, said Tuesday he hopes to live in Japan with his family for the rest of his life.
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The US Army freed deserter Charles Jenkins, who defected to North Korea in 1965 but was given a lenient sentence so he could be reunited with his Japanese wife who he met in the Stalinist state.
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CAMP ZAMA, Japan - Saluting and standing at attention, accused U.S. Army deserter Charles Jenkins surrendered to U.S...
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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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Saluting and standing at attention, accused American army deserter Charles Jenkins surrendered to US military authorities at a base near Tokyo, today, to face charges that he left his unit in 1965 and defected to North Korea.
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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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U.S. Army deserter Charles Jenkins was released from military jail on Saturday after serving 25 days for abandoning his squadron in 1965 and defecting to North Korea, where he lived for nearly four decades.
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A Marine reservist who tearfully asked to remain in the Marine Corps after being convicted of abusing inmates in Iraq was sentenced Friday to 60 days of hard labor and demoted to the rank of private.
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TOKYO -- Alleged US Army deserter Charles Robert Jenkins said yesterday that he would surrender to US military authorities to face charges that he deserted his post along the demilitarized zone dividing North and South Korea in the 1960s.
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Charles Robert Jenkins, a US soldier who defected to North Korea 40 years ago, was found guilty of desertion at a US Army court martial in Japan Wednesday.
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The court martial of U.S. Army Sergeant  Charles Robert Jenkins, accused of deserting to North Korea  four decades ago and now in Japan, has been scheduled for Nov.  3, a U.S. military source said Thursday.
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CAMP ZAMA, Japan - The Charles Jenkins saga drew nearer an end Wednesday when the Army sergeant was reduced in rank to E-1, dishonorably discharged and ordered to forfeit all pay and allowances and serve six months in prison after pleading guilty to
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US Army deserter Charles Jenkins was released from military jail on Saturday after serving 25 days for abandoning his squadron in 1965 and defecting to North Korea, where he lived for nearly four decades.
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Tokyo -- Former US Army Sgt. Charles Jenkins believes his conviction and sentence of 30 days in jail for desertion after nearly 40 years in North Korea is &quot;very fair,&quot; his defense attorney told The Associated Press on Thursday.