Defector Jenkins is coming to Japan Sunday?

[Taro Toporific]

Japan sounds out Jenkins to come to Japan for medical treatment
Tuesday July 13, 8:35 PM / Kyodo
...Tokyo is seeking Washington's cooperation in the matter behind the scenes, they said.
Jenkins has reportedly refused to come to Japan due to fear Japan will hand him over to the United States for a court-martial under a bilateral extradition treaty. He is said to be ill and has recently undergone surgery in North Korea.
The treaty has no clause to limit extradition of a culprit under treatment, but whether to actually hand a suspect over in such a case is often left to a judgment of circumstances, the Foreign Ministry said. Persuading Washington should be possible in that sense, according to the sources.
Japanese doctors who were sent to check Jenkins' condition have concluded that he needs treatment in Japan, and the government is considering a hospital in the greater Tokyo area, the sources said.
One government official said Washington is unlikely to request a handover if Jenkins comes to Japan for medical treatment, "based on common sense."

[Marvin Feltcher]

Let the deserter, collaborator and producer of anti-Western propaganda die slowly in pain and stop wasting my tax money caring for this traitorous fiend.

[Taro Toporific]

Let the deserter, collaborator and producer of anti-Western propaganda die slowly in pain and stop wasting my tax money caring for this traitorous fiend.

Unsung Heroes, a North Korean movie
on the exploits of Communists spies in South Korea
Jenkins plays Col. Klaus the US CIC commander


Yeah Marvin, fuck nuance. It's obvious that Jenkins is guilty as charged and that's why did he not return to Japan with his wife

And now, Dumbo is gonna get an AUTOMATIC perm visa and collect Japanese Social Security. Sheesh.

[dimwit]

[img]Japanese doctors who were sent to check Jenkins' condition have concluded that he needs treatment in Japan, and the government is considering a hospital in the greater Tokyo area, the sources said." [/u]

Can we send him to the hospital where they mistook a lung cancer patient for a coronary bypass patient?

[Jushin-Thunder-Liger]

Why not leave the old bugger in peace?
Ah yes, conservative rhetoric.................

[dimwit]

Why not leave the old bugger in peace?

For several reasons

From a personal point of view, I, in the somewhat not too distant future will approach that old buggers age, I certainly haven't gotten, nor expect to get, a hero's welcome from the fine people here.

From an American government point of view, consider for a second what the Japanese government reaction would be if,say, London or Paris give refugee status to the bunch of Japanese Red Army terrorist who are hold up in N.K. wanting to return home.

From the point of view of an FG, the problem is that letting Jenkins into the country creates a horrible double standard. There are thousands of far more worthy people trying to get into this country.

Finally, the only reason that the government has been so sympathic is because they see it as a vote winning issue, and trust me, they won a few seat more then they should have due to it. So who benefits be letting him in? Those horrible conservatives.

[jingai]

If helping out an individual improves relations between Japan and the most dangerous country in the region (North Korea), is it worth it for the good of the Japanese people?

[Taro Toporific]

...the only reason that the government has been so sympathic is because they see it as a vote winning issue, and trust me, they won a few seat more then they should have due to it...

Jerkoff Jenkins trusts KreapoziodKoizumi, willing to travel to Japan
Wednesday, July 14, 2004 at 14:12 JST / Kyodo
JAKARTA--- Charles Jenkins, the American husband of repatriated Japanese abductee Hitomi Soga, is willing to travel to Japan as he is confident that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi will enable his family to live permanently in Japan, Japanese government sources said Wednesday...

[GomiGirl]

Does Jenkins still have a valid US passport? If not, has he been issued with a NK passport? Or is he stateless???

[Taro Toporific]

Does Jenkins still have a valid US passport? If not, has he been issued with a NK passport? Or is he stateless???

He and his daughters were shown filling out a one page entry form at the airport. He says he is " North Korean citizen" so they must have N. Korean passports, probably diplomatic ones.

....For several years after his arrival, Jenkins was a popular feature in North Korean propaganda. He often spoke over the crackling loudspeaker system at the DMZ, ranting about American imperialism. In one leaflet from the late 1960s, he is shown smiling broadly with three other deserters who are touring a lake and posing with attractive women.
"More and more American soldiers are coming over to North Korea ... in quest of genuine freedom and happiness, casting off their disgraceful lot of being mercenaries for the Pentagon's policy of aggression and war," boasted the leaflet, titled "Fortune's Favorites."

Jenkins met Soga in 1980....
"We were both lonely without families. We felt sympathetic towards each other," Jenkins said in a rare interview in late 2002 with a Japanese magazine. The interview and a photo session were arranged by the North Korean government, which was at the time campaigning for Soga to be returned to North Korea. Jenkins spent most of the interview explaining why Soga should come back and praising life in North Korea.

"I am a North Korean citizen," he said. "We are living without difficulties."

http://www.aiipowmia.com/inter24/in040522defect.htm

[Ol Dirty Gaijin]

Jerkoff Jenkins trusts KreapoziodKoizumi, willing to travel to Japan

Taro does Ellroy, "Off the record, on the QT and very hush-hush."

Jerker Jenkins was the guy that you saw in 60's if you wanted to pull some Real Red Cooch, a pack of Marlboros, get your wife's lovers legs broken, hop a border or two, get a dope cure, fix a drunk/driving, or get a picture of Rock Hudson with a dick in his mouth.

Now Jerker was too cool to drool. Jerker Jenkins would leave you reamed, steamed, and dry cleaned, tied, dyed, swept to the side, screwed, blued, tattooed, and bob-gung-gooed.

Red Jiving Jerker was the guy hired by DMZ as a playboy, swinging with the dames, having lake side par-teys with his commie con-spiritors.

Some of these things may not be true, take your choice.

Why do I care about him? He's taking my tax money! Pretty neat for a crim.

[Taro Toporific]

Why do I care about him? He's taking my tax money! Pretty neat for a crim.

Now, now let's all have some respect for the poor man with, "some illness in his internal organs."

Jenkins suffers postoperative effect, illness in internal organs
(Kyodo) - Jul 14, 8:07 pm
Charles Jenkins, the American husband of repatriated Japanese abductee Hitomi Soga, is suffering from the postoperative effects of abdominal surgery in North Korea in April as well as some illness in his internal organs, a Japanese government official said Wednesday...
..."Mr. Jenkins appears to be concerned about whether he could adapt to Japan," Oguma said. "As soon as the results are known, we will consider a necessary response after confirming his wishes."....
Mika was quoted as saying the sea looked beautiful and that she would like to ride on the boat.

[Taro Toporific]

Jenkins to arrive in Japan Sun. for medical treatmentTOKYO, July 15, 2004 updated 10:24 Kyodo -
The Japanese government has decided to bring Charles Jenkins, an accused U.S. Army deserter and the husband of a repatriated Japanese abductee, to Japan as early as Sunday for medical treatment, government sources said Wednesday night.
The sources said Japan has decided to help Jenkins visit Japan even without an agreement from Washington to prevent his extradition.
Jenkins has expressed his willingness to visit Japan, Japanese government sources said, adding he has also said he does not want to return to North Korea.
Government sources said earlier in the day that Jenkins is willing to travel to Japan as he is confident that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi will enable his family to live permanently in Japan.
....
The government has decided to bring Jenkins to Japan even without an agreement from Washington because officials believe Jenkins requires medical treatment in Japan soon, the sources said.
But the officials believe that securing such agreement on humanitarian grounds from Washington before bringing Jenkins to Japan would be difficult, according to the sources. Tokyo apparently believes it can avoid handing Jenkins over to the United States if he is in Japan for hospital treatment....
Koizumi also said the government aims to enable Jenkins to live in Japan permanently rather than make a temporary visit for medical reasons.

[GridReaper]

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5683493

They prolly want to know what he has taught to the NK spies. Or maybe how the teaching English in NK compares to doing it in Japan.

[Taro Toporific]

On NHK TV's 7pm News last night, an American laywer was saying Jenkins could only be held for 72 hours and released on the lack of evidence. (Since the Army lost the evidence, there's no way to prove the fool-traitor defected.)

As Japan readies hospital bed, clock may be ticking for alleged U.S. Army deserterASSOCIATED PRESS / 3:27 p.m. July 15, 2004 - TOKYO -- The charges could range from conduct unbecoming an officer to desertion; the punishments from nothing at all to life in prison....
...."The minute he touches ground in Japan, he belongs to the military," said Annette Eddie-Callagain, a former U.S. Air Force lawyer who is the only civilian defense attorney in Japan qualified to represent American clients in courts-martial....
....According to a mutual security pact under which more than 50,000 U.S. troops are stationed in Japan, U.S. military police have the power to seek out military suspects and arrest them, whether they are on base or off, sick or well.

But Eddie-Callagain stressed that very little is known about the Jenkins case and desertion is a hard charge to prove. "They have to prove that at the time he left, he never, ever intended to come back," she said. "That's very hard to do."

Unless the military is confident it can prove he did not intend to return to his unit, it may charge him instead with simply going AWOL ---- absent without leave. Or they may find that he never wanted to leave at all, and --- like his wife --- was forced to remain in the secretive nation....
If they find he did desert, he also could face a host of other charges, including aiding the enemy.
But the military justice system allows for a wide range of punishment options. A guilty verdict could mean life in jail, or virtually no punishment at all if there are significant mitigating circumstances.
"The military court will take all that into consideration," Eddie-Callagain said. "But the main thing is, he has to go through the process if he is ever going to get to the other side. At his age, he just needs to get this behind him."

[Taro Toporific]

... stop wasting my tax money caring for this traitorous ...

VISIT SET FOR SUNDAY
Jenkins should confess, plea-bargain: Baker
The Japan Times: July 17, 2004
U.S. Ambassador to Japan Howard Baker suggested to senior lawmakers of the ruling coalition Friday that Charles Jenkins, an alleged U.S. Army deserter to North Korea, should seek a plea bargain, officials said.
...Baker said, as his "personal opinion," that Jenkins should turn himself in, consult with a lawyer and seek a plea bargain on the charges against him, according to participants of the meeting.
Baker was quoted as saying that Jenkins "will not face capital punishment if he confesses to everything he has done."

...Jenkins is accused of four charges: instigating desertion, deserting service, helping the enemy and promoting abandonment of loyalty.
At a news conference, Hosoda said Jenkins' illness may be spreading to other parts of his body. Although Hosoda did not elaborate on the exact nature of the ailment, his comment suggests Jenkins is suffering from cancer.

[Steve Bildermann]

Airlines bid 1 yen to transport American deserter


Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways, the country's two biggest carriers, each bid a mere 1 yen for the right to bring back to Japan Hitomi Soga and her family, including accused deserter Charles Jenkins, the Mainichi has learned.

JAL was eventually awarded the contract when its name was pulled out of a hat because the bidders submitted identical prices for the flight from Jakarta to Japan on Sunday.

Cutthroat competition between the airlines has helped cut some of the exorbitant expense that has surrounded the trip to Jakarta by Soga, a Japanese abducted by North Korean agents, and her family -- Jenkins and their two daughters, who had been holed up in Pyongyang.

Chartered planes are only one luxury to have been showered on Soga and her family. The ministry had the family stay in an exclusive suite at a five-star Jakarta hotel costing about 200,000 yen a night. The government says it has a contract giving it the room for 50,000 yen a night.

[Taro Toporific]

NEWS FLASH:
The Kyodo news ticker is reading:

[Sat] "22:59 Jenkins says ready to face arrest by going to Japan "

[canman]

I can't believe how much Jenkins is playing up his sickness for the Japanese media. When he got off the plane in Jakarta, he walked with no problem. No all of a sudden he needs a cane and stumbles. My god this is sickening to watch. And guess what folks it will be live Jenins-san for the next week 24/7, whether you like it or not.

[Taro Toporific]

I can't believe how much Jenkins is playing up his sickness ...When he got off the plane in Jakarta, he walked with no problem. No all of a sudden he needs a cane and stumbles. My god this is sickening to watch. :

I see it on the BBC right now. NOTICE he's bearing weight on the SAME SIDE he holds his cane---a sign of bad doctors' advice or FAKING.

[dimwit]

Pulling a sickie is a time honored way for politicans to avoid prosecution in Japan, Tanaka did it during the Lougheed Scandal, Kanemaru did it during the Sagawa Scandal, so it is quite possible that he has been given that advice.

[Bongo]

[Ol Dirty Gaijin]

I see it on the BBC right now. NOTICE he's bearing weight on the SAME SIDE he holds his cane---a sign of bad doctors' advice or FAKING.

See how he was climbing the stairs on to the plane.... Cane my ass.

Mrs ODG was saying there has been NOTHING negative said about Jenkins in the J media.

[Bongo]

[canman]

My wife just told me she red that the J-gov't is thinking about giving Jenkins citizenship thus protecting him from any persecution. I think its a mistake, let the US pardon him, then everybody will have that warm feeling in the pit of their stomache. But if Japan jumps the gun and makes him a citizen the US might just be a little testy. But its an election year so you don't want any kind of int'l incident do you.

[Big Booger]

At first I thought they should throw the book at that B. Arnold... but now I think they should just let him wither away.. He's tool old to prosecute, and there should be a statute of limitations on desertion.. like with many crimes in the US.

I think the US going after that old man will only make matters worse.. the way he looked on TV it don't look like he has that many years left.

[Bongo]

[Bongo]

Very good point about Fujimori, Bongo-san! He walks, talks, looks and even has a 'Japanese' name, therefore he must be 'Japanese' DESU NE!?!?!?

And I think the current bad acting Jenkins drama is just all part of the current grand master plan of US+Asia = Love Affair which is to be continued in the news and Hollywood for many years to come!

Stay tuned!

Yeah, is Jenkins going to become a born again Christian, denounce the barbaric Eastern Buddhists and go to dinner with Bush, Cheney and the rest of their disciples?

[devicenull]

eh, i dont really see the big deal here, nor do i see why the US should have any right to grab him. Give him citizenship and that is one more american who beat the system

[Taro Toporific]

... I am now watching this J TV wide show and they have his FG cousin on now praising him and congratulating him on recently getting his new FG status badge.

Now his sister is trolling the Japanese media for an all-expenses paid, 4-star junket to Japan to same their inbred intimacies.


... US Deserter in Japan Hospita
AP / Mon, Jul. 19, 2004
...Jenkins' sister in North Carolina, Pat Harrell, told the News & Observer of Raleigh that she hoped to visit her brother in Tokyo, but would wait until his condition improved. She said she spoke to him over the telephone when he was in Indonesia.
Even though she hasn't seen her brother for nearly 40 years, Harrell said she's looked at enough recent pictures of Jenkins so that it won't feel too weird to finally stand next to him again. ...