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Jenkins 'escapes' again Sgt. Charles Robert Jenkins was given a 30-day jail sentence and a dishonorable discharge Nov. 3 after pleading guilty before a court-martial at Camp Zama for deserting his U.S. Army unit and fleeing to North Korea in 1965. Jenkins told the court-martial he deserted to avoid dangerous duty on the Korean Peninsula and in Vietnam. The plea was part of a bargain to win a lenient sentence. The prosecution had called the crimes "selfish and despicable," and had requested a brief jail term and a dishonorable discharge for the 64-year-old husband of repatriated Pyongyang abductee Hitomi Soga. He could have faced life in prison. Jenkins also pleaded guilty to aiding the enemy by teaching English to North Korean military cadets being trained as spies in the 1980s. Jenkins, however, denied that he advocated the overthrow of the United States in propaganda broadcasts, and pleaded not guilty to charges of making disloyal statements. Those charges were dropped.
The Japan Times Weekly: Nov. 13, 2004 |
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