After 40 years, American deserter takes his punishment
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To the American military he was a turncoat and a traitor, the soldier who defected to communist North Korea and lived as a fugitive during the height of the cold war.
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A military judge jailed a US army sergeant to eight years in prison for sexually and physically abusing Iraqi prisoners. The sentence for Staff Sergeant Ivan &#39;Chip&#39; Frederick, 38, is by far the toughest of
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Four decades after Charles Robert Jenkins disappeared into the mists of the Cold War, the United States Army sergeant, now a frail 64-year-old, received a light sentence
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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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The first American military intelligence soldier to be court-martialed over the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal was sentenced Saturday to eight months in jail, a reduction in rank and a bad-conduct discharge.
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A US soldier who vanished into communist North Korea 40 years has been found guilty of desertion after tearfully confessing he had been scared, drunk and had wanted to leave the army.
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An American GI pleaded guilty at a US court martial in Japan Wednesday of defecting to North Korea four decades ago and &quot;aiding the enemy&quot; by teaching English to North Koreans.
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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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Army Spc. Charles Graner Jr. was sentenced to 10 years behind bars Saturday for physically and sexually mistreating Iraqis in the first court-martial stemming from at Abu Ghraib prison scandal, an embarrassment to the U.S. military fueled by the release of graphic photographs.
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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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Charles Jenkins, who deserted from the US Army in Korea 39 years ago, was released Saturday from a military brig in Japan after serving 24 days.
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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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For nearly four decades, he was a prisoner of the North Koreans. Then US Army deserter Charles Jenkins came to Japan this year, faced a court-martial and was sentenced to a month in jail.
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U.S. border agents arrested a Marine deserter wanted for the last 40 years as he drove into California from Mexico, the Customs and Border Protection agency said on Friday.
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A former American soldier convicted in Afghanistan of running a private jail and torturing terror suspects has left the country after three years in a Kabul prison, the warden said Wednesday.
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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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US Army deserter Charles Jenkins was released from military jail on Saturday after serving 25 days for abandoning his squadron in 1965 and defecting to North Korea, where he lived for nearly four decades.