Gi Says Fear Drove Him to Desert to North Korea
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Four decades after he vanished into North Korea, an American soldier pleaded guilty today to abandoning his unit in 1965, tearfully recounting his fears of death and the depression he said drove him to defect.
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TORONTO (CP) - An American war dodger said Tuesday he fled the U.S. military because he believed the invasion of Iraq was illegal and any act of violence he committed there would be an atrocity.
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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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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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A US Army deserter said the one thing he did right during his 40 years in North Korea was to leave the country, which was training his daughters as spies, in an interview published.
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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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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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NIAMEY, Niger  - Sent from China to hunt for oil  under the Sahara desert, Wenhui Tan looked distinctly uneasy as  the conversation turned to security fears ranging from the  spread of Islamic radicalism to cold-blooded banditry.
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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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CAMP ZAMA, Japan - The court-martial of Sgt. Charles Robert Jenkins opened Wednesday on charges he deserted his US Army unit in 1965 and defected to North Korea.
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He was 17 and terrified. The Taliban had indoctrinated him well. Nothing we do in Afghanistan will stop people like Farhad
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A permanent solution to the North Korean  nuclear crisis is unlikely until Pyongyang's communist system  gives way to democracy, a prominent former South Korean general  said on Friday.
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Forty-five years ago, Private First Class Joe Dresnok got fed up with the U.S. Army and decided to try his luck on the other side of the demilitarized zone, in North Korea.
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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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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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An American soldier accused of deserting  to North Korea in 1965 and now in hospital in Tokyo said  Wednesday he was willing to report to the U.S. military in  Japan to face charges.
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Former US sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins, who deserted to North Korea four decades ago, has emerged from nearly a month in confinement to prepare for a new life with his family in his Japanese wife&#39;s home town.