US &#39;deserter&#39; faces his past
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WITH a long salute, Charles Jenkins yesterday faced the ghosts of his military past by surrendering to a US base in Japan. In doing so, the accused military deserter effectively ended 40 years on the run from the US army.
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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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A U.S. Army sergeant accused of deserting  nearly 40 years ago and who is now in hospital in Japan may  appear before the U.S. military for a plea bargain in the not  too distant future, his wife said on Monday.
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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.
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He was in the firefights of Fallujah. He saw gaps in America's arsenal that he believes can only be filled when America's elite puts its sons on the battlefield. A plea for selective service.
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A 64-year old American soldier pleaded guilty on Wednesday to deserting to North Korea in 1965, receiving a relatively light sentence of up to 30 days confinement and a dishonorable
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CAMP ZAMA, Japan  - US Sergeant Charles Jenkins, 64, tearfully told a military court that he walked into North Korea scared of dying on patrol and stayed in the Stalinist state for 39 years through beatings and fear.
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Legal procedures are under way to decide the fate of U.S. Army Sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins, accused of deserting to North Korea four decades ago, a U.S. Army official said Monday.
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Legal procedures are under way to decide the fate of US Army Sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins, accused of deserting to North Korea four decades ago, a US Army official said Monday.
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TOKYO -- US Army deserter Charles Jenkins has been released from military jail after serving 25 days for abandoning his squadron in 1965 and defecting to North Korea where he was held for 39 years.
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The U.S. Army is preparing for its biggest desertion trial in decades following the surrender of Sgt. Charles Robert Jenkins, wanted for allegedly abandoning his patrol nearly 40 years ago and becoming a North Korean propaganda tool.
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A former US Army sergeant who defected to North Korea almost 40 years ago - has been released after serving 25 days in military detention in Japan.
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A US soldier who pleaded guilty to deserting to North Korea nearly four decades ago was sentenced to 30-days confinement and a dishonorable discharge on Wednesday, ending one of the Cold War&#39;s strangest dramas.
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A decorated soldier who deserted from the U.S. Army to avoid a second tour of duty in Iraq has crossed back into the United States after fleeing to Canada almost two years ago.
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Camp Zama - An American soldier who vanished from his army unit in 1965 pleaded guilty on Wednesday to deserting the military and fleeing to North Korea to avoid dangerous duty on the Korean peninsula and Vietnam.
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TORONTO -- A US soldier who deserted because he opposed the war in Iraq appealed for asylum in Canada yesterday but faces an uphill battle to persuade a refugee tribunal that he has the right to stay.
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Four decades after he vanished into North Korea, an American soldier pleaded guilty today to abandoning his unit in 1965, tearfully recounting his fears of death and the depression he said drove him to defect.