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Charles Robert Jenkins (() 18 February 1940 – () 11 December 2017) was a United States Army deserter, North Korean prisoner, and voice for Japanese abductees in North Korea. Driven by fear of combat and possible service in the Vietnam War , then- Sergeant Jenkins abandoned his patrol and walked across the Korean Demilitarized Zone in January ...
Hitomi Soga-Jenkins (Japanese: 曽我ひとみ Soga Hitomi, born May 17, 1959) is a Japanese woman who was abducted to North Korea together with her mother, Miyoshi Soga, from Sado Island, Japan, in 1978. In 1980, she married Charles Robert Jenkins, [1] an American defector to North Korea, with whom she had two daughters. In 2002, she was ...
While in North Korea, where he taught English to soldiers and portrayed an evil U.S. spy in a propaganda film, Jenkins met and married Hitomi Soga, a Japanese woman 20 years his junior who had ...
Her husband, Charles Robert Jenkins, was a defector from the United States Army who fled to North Korea where he eventually met and married Soga. Fearing a court-martial, Jenkins and their two daughters initially met Soga in Jakarta, Indonesia, on July 9, 2004, eventually returning together to Japan on July 18. Two months later, on September 11 ...
A small number of U.S. soldiers who went to North Korea during the Cold War, including Charles Jenkins, who deserted his army post in South Korea in 1965 and fled across the DMZ. He appeared in ...
In 2004 Charles Jenkins, a U.S. Army sergeant who had deserted to North Korea in 1965, turned himself into Camp Zama. He was sentenced to a 30-day jail sentence and given a dishonorable discharge. He was sentenced to a 30-day jail sentence and given a dishonorable discharge.
Charles Robert Jenkins (1940–2017) from Rich Square, North Carolina, deserted on January 5, 1965, at the age of 24; Roy Chung (1957–2004), an American who was born in South Korea, deserted in June 1979; Joseph T. White (1961–1985) from St Louis, Missouri, deserted in August 1982 at the age of 20.
Amid the pomp and pageantry of Japan's recent state visit to the U.K., King Charles and Emperor Naruhito of Japan appeared to be thick as thieves as they carried out the first day of royal ...