Cold War deserter jailed after 40 years
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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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An American soldier who spent nearly 40 years in North Korea was yesterday given a 30-day prison sentence and a dishonourable discharge after pleading guilty to defecting to the communist state and aiding the enemy - charges that carry a maximum penalty
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CAMP ZAMA, Japan: US soldier Charles Jenkins pleaded guilty on Wednesday at a court martial to desertion to North Korea in 1965 and of aiding the enemy, his lawyer said.
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Ending one of the Army&#39;s longest desertion cases, Charles Robert Jenkins was sentenced to 30 days in a military jail Wednesday for
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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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The US Army has 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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TOKYO: A US soldier who deserted to North Korea four decades ago was yesterday given 30 days confinement and a dishonourable discharge, after confessing he had been scared and wanted to leave the army.
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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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(CAMP ZAMA, Japan) - A soldier who deserted his post four decades ago is serving a 30-day sentence at a Navy detention camp near Tokyo.
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Four decades after he vanished into North Korea, a soldier pleaded guilty Wednesday to abandoning his Army unit in 1965, tearfully recounting his fears of death and the depression he said drove him to defect.
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Four decades after he vanished from his Army unit, a frail, tearful, 64-year-old American soldier pleaded guilty Wednesday to desertion, saying he wanted to avoid dangerous duty on the Korean peninsula and Vietnam.
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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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Sgt. Charles Robert Jenkins pleaded guilty Wednesday to deserting the US Army in 1965, saying that he wanted to avoid &quot;hazardous&quot; duty on the Korean peninsula and Vietnam.
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ACCUSED US Army deserter Charles Jenkins has said he will surrender to the American military and face charges outstanding since he vanished from his unit in South Korea nearly 40 years ago.
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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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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