Sobbing Jenkins says he hopes to live in Sado for rest of his life
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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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CAMP ZAMA, Japan  - Legal steps are under way to  decide the fate of U.S. Army Sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins,  accused of deserting to North Korea in 1965, a U.S. Army  official said Monday as the 64-year-old soldier got set to  return to active duty for the first time in four decades.
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Accused US Army deserter Charles Jenkins said Wednesday he will surrender to the United States to face charges that have dogged him since he vanished from his unit in South Korea
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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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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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The family of US soldier Charles Robert Jenkins cheered his release from US military custody in Japan and said they look forward to seeing him for the first time since he defected to North Korea in 1965.
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MANO, SADO ISLAND, Japan  - A former U.S. army  sergeant who deserted to North Korea four decades ago left a  U.S. military base near Tokyo on Tuesday to head for a new life  with his family in his Japanese wife's hometown.
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NOGATA, Fukuoka -- The parents of a Japanese man taken hostage in Iraq said all they wanted was for their son to return home safe.
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TOKYO - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi vowed on Sunday that Japanese troops would continue their domestically unpopular mission in Iraq after Islamic militants demanding a pullout killed a 24-year-old Japanese tourist.
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US deserter and former Army Sgt. Charles Jenkins arrived Tuesday on a remote Japanese island, where he said he hoped to &quot;live my remaining days with my wife and children.
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A North Carolina man who deserted the U.S. Army for North Korea nearly 40 years ago was greeted by cheering crowds Tuesday in his wife's hometown on a remote island in northern Japan, where he said he plans to live his "remaining days."
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U.S. Army Sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins  was to surrender on Saturday at an American base in Japan to  face charges that he deserted to communist North Korea on a  wintry night four decades ago while on patrol in South Korea.
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For minutes after the 1500 metres final at the Sydney Olympics, all you could hear was the loud sobbing, tortured breath of a man who had just relived a nightmare.
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SADO ISLAND, Japan  - A former U.S. army sergeant  who deserted to North Korea 40 years ago said in his first news  conference since leaving the reclusive communist state that  North Korean leader Kim Jong-il was an "evil man."
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Secretary of State Colin  Powell flew over the worst scenes of devastation from Asia's  tsunami Wednesday and said it was more horrifying than wars he  had witnessed during decades as a soldier.
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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.
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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.