US Army soldier who deserted to North Korea dies aged 77. - Sensationalist Headlines

[quote]A US soldier who deserted to North Korea more than half a century ago, has died in Japan aged 77. Charles Robert Jenkins, from the tiny town of Rich Square in North Carolina, was eventually allowed to leave the secretive state in 2004. In 1965, Mr Jenkins, then a 24-year-old army sergeant nicknamed 'Scooter', disappeared one January night while on patrol near the demilitarised zone between the two Koreas. Later, at a court martial in Japan in 2004, he explained his reasons for deserting, saying he wanted to avoid hazardous duty in South Korea and escape combat in Vietnam. "It was Christmas time, it was also cold and dark. I started to drink alcohol. I never had drunk so much alcohol," he said at the time. After drinking 10 beers, Mr Jenkins took his men on patrol and told them to wait while he checked the road below. He then walked towards North Korea, holding a rifle with a white t-shirt tied around it.[/quote] [url]http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-12/us-north-korea-deserter-charles-robert-jenkins-dies/9251388[/url] Looking up more about him he honestly sounds like a guy who had some very misplaced views about communism and very quickly regretted deserting.

[QUOTE]10 beers[/QUOTE] Lightweight. [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Shit posting" - UncleJimmema))[/highlight]

Why would you [B]ever[/B] desert to North Korea? It's a damn suicide.

[QUOTE=Mifil;52969353]Why would you [B]ever[/B] desert to North Korea? It's a damn suicide.[/QUOTE] [quote]US Army soldier who deserted to North Korea dies aged 77[/quote] Apparently it wasn't.

[QUOTE=Robman8908;52969355]Apparently it wasn't.[/QUOTE] Well, it appears as he... [QUOTE]Mr Jenkins said he had planned to go to Russia and turn himself in, and had not expected North Korea to keep him. [/QUOTE] wanted to desert through NK to USSR. Also yes, I didn't take into consideration that during the XX century NK was a "lighter" dictatorship than it is now, with Kim Un.

He just wanted to play life in hard mode. Ended well for him though, he got to live most of his life in Sado, Japan, A peaceful island.

[QUOTE=Mifil;52969353]Why would you [B]ever[/B] desert to North Korea? It's a damn suicide.[/QUOTE] Keep in mind North Korea and South Korea were not quite different from one another in 1965. They both crushed dissent (though South Korea was not as bad as North Korea) and had comparable standards of living, as South Korea was an up and coming economic miracle and North Korea was still getting a ton of aid from the Soviet Union and China. If you were sympathetic to communism, you might think that North Korea is the paradise that communist propaganda led you to believe. Additionally, back then each side blared propaganda at each other over the DMZ [editline]12th December 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=Mifil;52969361]with Kim Un.[/QUOTE] Calling him Kim Un is like calling a guy name Michael Johnson "Chael Johnson"

At the very least it sounds like he lived a very interesting life.

Wow I didn't realize rayhalo was so old

[quote]Jenkins says he got the worst beating ever for talking back to a leader. He showed Pelley a scar where he says his teeth came through his lower lip. But even that beating wasn't as bad as the day someone noticed Jenkins' tattoo with the words "U.S. Army" inked into his forearm below crossed rifles. Jenkins says the North Koreans held him down and cut off the tattoo with scissors and no anesthetic. "They told me the anesthetic was for the battlefield," Jenkins said. "It was hell." He wanted to believe he was still in the Army but now the North Koreans had cut the words right out of his flesh.[/quote] He experienced some shit

[QUOTE=Orkel;52969863]He experienced some shit[/QUOTE] Fuuuck that

[QUOTE=proboardslol;52969556]Keep in mind North Korea and South Korea were not quite different from one another in 1965. They both crushed dissent (though South Korea was not as bad as North Korea) and had comparable standards of living, as South Korea was an up and coming economic miracle and North Korea was still getting a ton of aid from the Soviet Union and China. If you were sympathetic to communism, you might think that North Korea is the paradise that communist propaganda led you to believe. Additionally, back then each side blared propaganda at each other over the DMZ [editline]12th December 2017[/editline] Calling him Kim Un is like calling a guy name Michael Johnson "Chael Johnson"[/QUOTE] 1. Yeah, that's why I later corrected myself in mentioning that there's a difference between today's NK and post WWII NK. 2. My bad.