Four-decade saga ends in freedom for US defector to North Korea
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TOKYO  - The US Army freed soldier Charles Jenkins, who defected to North Korea in 1965 but was given leniency so he could start a new life with the Japanese wife whom he met in the Stalinist state.
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The long, strange journey of Charles Robert Jenkins reached a tearful climax with a 30-day sentence in a military prison and a dishonourable discharge from the United States Army he deserted for North Korea almost 40 years ago.
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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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BEIJING -- A British film crew says it has found the last American defector still living in North Korea, an Army private who crossed over to the Stalinist state in 1962 and says he is glad he did.
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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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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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Former US sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins, who deserted to North Korea four decades ago, emerged on Saturday from nearly a month in confinement to prepare for a new life with his family in his Japanese wife&#39;s rural home town.
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Forty-five years ago, Private First Class Joe Dresnok got fed up with the U.S. Army and decided to try his luck on the other side of the demilitarized zone, in North Korea.
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A man accused of deserting the US army for North Korea nearly four decades ago has turned himself over to the US military, in a step toward his possible resettlement in Japan.
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An alleged US Army deserter, who spent almost 40 years in communist North Korea, voluntarily surrendered on Saturday at an American base in Japan.
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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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Putting the four decades he spent as a US Army deserter in North Korea behind him, Charles Jenkins was greeted Tuesday by cheering crowds in his wife&#39;s hometown on this wind-swept Japanese island.
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TOKYO - A man charged with deserting his US Army unit 39 years ago and allegedly defecting to North Korea, is expected to surrender to US military authorities in Japan on Saturday.
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CAMP ZAMA, Japan -- US Army deserter Charles Jenkins was released from military jail today 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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Former U.S. sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins, who deserted to North Korea four decades ago, emerged on Saturday from nearly a month in confinement to prepare for a new life with his family in his Japanese wife's rural home town.
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A former US serviceman accused of deserting while serving in South Korea in 1965 turned himself in on Saturday to the US military at a base near Tokyo.
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US army Sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins pleaded guilty on Wednesday to deserting to North Korea at a court martial that will decide his fate and end a Cold War drama that began four decades ago, a witness said.