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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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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Former US Army Sgt. Charles Jenkins believes his conviction and sentence to 30 days in jail for desertion after nearly 40 years in North Korea is âvery fair,â his defence lawyer said in Japan today.
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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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A former U.S. army sergeant who deserted  to North Korea four decades ago said he decided to turn himself  in to the U.S. military and risk jail for the sake of his North  Korean-born daughters, whom he feared might be used as spies by  the government.
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TORONTO -- An American war dodger who willingly joined the US army because it would pay for his university education testified yesterday the birth of his son was the final step in his realization that he didn&#39;t want to be a killer.
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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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SADO. Japan -- A North Carolina man who deserted the US Army for North Korea nearly 40 years ago says today is the first day of the last chapter of his life.
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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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CAMP ZAMA, Japan A military court-martial is under way for Charles Jenkins, the Army sergeant who&#39;s accused of deserting his unit in 1965 and defecting to North Korea.
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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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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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Ex-US soldier Charles Jenkins, accused of defecting to N Korea, says he is ready to surrender to the US army.
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An American soldier accused of deserting to North Korea in 1965 and now in hospital in Tokyo says he is willing to report to the US military in Japan to face charges.
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A US marine charged with desertion from his unit in Iraq has again been declared a deserter.
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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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TOKYO - 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...