US soldier discharged 39 years after deserting to North Korea
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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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Tokyo - US army deserter Charles Jenkins, who spent nearly four decades in North Korea, finally saw freedom on Tuesday as he left a US base with his Japanese wife for a new home on a small island north of Tokyo.
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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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Free for the first time in nearly four decades, U.S. Army deserter Charles Jenkins sobbed with joy as he was released from a military jail on Saturday after serving 25 days for abandoning his squadron and crossing the border into North Korea in 1965.
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Accused U.S. Army deserter Charles Jenkins left his Tokyo hospital for an American military base to surrender to military authorities Saturday, nearly 40 years after he allegedly defected to North Korea.
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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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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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A 64-year-old American who disappeared into North Korea for four decades was sentenced Wednesday to 30 days in prison for desertion, closing a Cold War mystery.
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Former US army sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins, who deserted to North Korea (news - web sites) four decades ago, said he decided to turn himself in to the US military and risk jail for the sake of his North Korean-born daughters, whom he feared might be
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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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A US soldier who deserted to North Korea four decades ago embarks on a new life with his family in Japan.
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After 40 years in North Korea and less than one month in a U.S. military jail, Army deserter Charles Jenkins will become a free man on Saturday.
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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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A former US Army Sergeant who spent nearly 40 years in North Korea has left a US military base in Japan to begin a new life with his family.
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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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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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CAMP ZAMA, Japan  - U.S. Army Sergeant Charles  Jenkins gave himself up to American military authorities  Saturday to face charges that he deserted to communist North  Korea four decades ago while on patrol in South Korea.