U.S. Deserter Heads to Japanese Wife’s Town
From Times Wire Reports
Nearly four decades after deserting the U.S. Army for North Korea, Charles Robert Jenkins left a U.S. military base outside Tokyo to start a new life in his wife’s hometown on a remote island in northern Japan.
His departure came almost two weeks after he had served nearly a month in prison for deserting. Jenkins met his Japanese wife, Hitomi Soga, after she was abducted to North Korea.
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