Jenkins GUILTY of "teaching North Koreans English"

[Taro Toporific]

Jenkins pleads guilty to charges of desertion, aiding enemy
Kyodo / Wednesday November 3, 9:10 AM
U.S. Army sergeant Charles Jenkins on Wednesday pleaded guilty to the charge of desertion to North Korea in 1965 while serving in South Korea at the outset of a court-martial hearing held at the Army's Camp Zama near Tokyo.U.S. Army sergeant Charles Jenkins on Wednesday pleaded guilty to the charge of desertion to North Korea in 1965 while serving in South Korea at the outset of a court-martial hearing held at the Army's Camp Zama near Tokyo...
Jenkins also pleaded guilty to aiding the enemy by teaching North Koreans English. He pleaded not guilty to charges of encouraging disloyalty and soliciting other personnel to desert.

[maraboutslim]

And they gave him 30-days which will probably be suspended.

Apparently the USA was all bark and no bite on this one!

Speaking of which... where are we with Bobby Fisher? There is an order in place preventing his detention, right? And next hearing is in January, right? Is he still being held in detention somewhere?

[Steve Bildermann]

Bobby's dreaming of a pokey Christmas..

http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8474&highlight=fischer

[Captain Japan]

Jenkins airlifted to jail site

YOKOSUKA, Kanagawa -- Charles Robert Jenkins arrived at U.S. Navy Yokosuka Naval Base late Wednesday night to begin serving a 30-day sentence after he was found guilty of desertion and aiding the enemy earlier in the day, the Mainichi has learned.

Jenkins was transported to Yokosuka by helicopter from Camp Zama, where he was convicted by a court martial earlier in the day.

[Taro Toporific]

...Jenkins was transported to Yokosuka by helicopter from Camp Zama, where he was convicted by a court martial earlier in the day.

Damn. Now those roadside bombs along Route 16 won't get him.

The bigger question, now Jenkins is a convicted felon and cannot be issued a Japanese visa according to Japanese Immigration "law".

Jenkins does not US Social Security benefits because he hasn't paid enough money into the system. Is the Japanese governmnet gonna give him money to live or is he gonna teach at NOVA? Will the Court issue a gag order on him for the book rights and movie options? When are Mika and Bellinda gonna do a lesbian nude photo shoot to raise money for their daddy?

[GuyJean]

Apparently the USA was all bark and no bite on this one!

I called it like I saw it.. http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7758&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15

GJ

[dimwit]

U.S. Army sergeant Charles Jenkins on Wednesday pleaded guilty to the charge of desertion to North Korea in 1965 while serving in South Korea at the outset of a court-martial hearing held at the Army's Camp Zama near Tokyo...
Jenkins also pleaded guilty to aiding the enemy by teaching

What is with face of the judge in the sketch? What's next, cubist court sketches? surrealist sketches (forget about the erotic images of the Virgin Mary she wasn't actually at the hearing)?

[Captain Japan]

What is with face of the judge in the sketch? What's next, cubist court sketches? surrealist sketches (forget about the erotic images of the Virgin Mary she wasn't actually at the hearing)?

She's winking at Jenkins.

[Taro Toporific]

What is with face of the judge in the sketch? What's next, cubist court sketches? surrealist sketches...

Me bad.

I slightly "enhance" all the photos I post on the FG.

Here is a closeup of the too realist version of the "artist's" rendering from the US Army website.

Huge 1.78mb sketch1_closeup.jpg

[Taro Toporific]

What is with face of the judge in the sketch? What's next, cubist court sketches? surrealist sketches...

Can you see the resemblance?

Colonel Denise Denise Vowell, Chief Judge



Huge 1.78mb JPEG of the artist's sketch of poor Judge Denise

[kurohinge1]

Forget Jenkins, that sketch artist should get at least 3 years in the brig.

He obviously doesn't take the job seriously, I mean, look at his effort at the Simpson trial ...

[Taro Toporific]

... Jenkins is a convicted felon and cannot be issued a Japanese visa according to Japanese Immigration "law".
Jenkins does not US Social Security benefits because he hasn't paid enough money into the system. Is the Japanese governmnet gonna give him money to live or is he gonna teach at NOVA?

Government to support Jenkins family
NHK TV / Thursday, November 04, 2004 3:17:02 PM---The Japanese government is planning to help the family of Mr Charles Jenkins to live on Sado Island in the Sea of Japan.....
....The government plans to grant the family an allowance and is to find Mr Jenkins a job as an English teacher.

[CLOWNPUNCHER]

He'll make a fortune writing a book.

Not much the US government can do to prevent him from doing that if he's living in Japan.

[Marvin Feltcher]

It was a fascinating court martial, the first I'd ever seen.
It was virtually scripted, which I discovered because the hack sitting in front of me had been supplied with a copy of goings on and the pre-trial agreement and I could catch glimpses of it as the court martial went on by looking over their shoulder.
These insiders had known the result for some time, it seems, which sort of gave the thing a real Big Brother or Stalin feeling, especially with all the Army acronyms and jargons that were like Newspeak and Doublespeak. It was made even more so because of the nature of the court martial, where the judge has to confirm that the accused really understands what they have done if they've entered a guilty plea and has to repeatedly ask leading questions to do so.
The Army operation was really slick...if only it could work as well in Iraq. They were really fantastic, setting everything up perfectly and being open and informative in what was a really confusing process. Best PR job they've done in Japan for years.
Jenkins was pitiful, which I am sure was the impression all sides wanted him to give. His lawyer, Culp, was occasionally melodramatic, but gave a moving and powerful closing argument.
Soga was incredible. That quiet woman's power and her ability to overcome adversity were really moving. An amazing woman.
The prosecutor scared the shit out of everybody, even those who knew what was coming. Right at the time when pretty much all those watching from an auditorium set up to display proceedings had firmly moved into the "Free Jenkins" camp, he suddenly came out with a stinging attack demanding he be jailed, which really fucked everyone in the Japanese media because the presumption was Jenkins would be let off with no jail time.
I'm by no means a Jenkins fan, but I think the verdict was perfect. He had to be punished because of the severity of his crimes, but he'd paid enough by having had to live for 40 years under the regimes of the Kims. I hope they let him out ASAP. I also hope we'll hear his full story some day, but I don't know how much he really remembers. He's clearly an alcoholic, possibly brain-damaged and nobody is likely to ever find out what really went on considering how everything around him is so sanitized and sheltered now. He's been through some fairly bizarre shit.
He's basically a dumb country kid who had these weird ideas about getting home and instead got a huge mind fuck. He's a wreck, but his wife and kids apparently adore him -- let them live quietly off in the sticks.
I wanted to write something and had all these ideas floating about in my head, but I was there as an assistant for the Japanese paper and it's a bit too late now. Still, it was an amazing experience.

[Taro Toporific]

I
I wanted to write something and had all these ideas floating about in my head....

Time Magazine did a nice job of convincing me I should not make my next hunting trip in Sado-ga-shima.



In from the Cold
A U.S. defector to North Korea confesses to his crime and recounts his long, strange story
Time, Thur. Nov 4, by JIM FREDERICK | CAMP ZAMA

[Captain Japan]

Late at night on Jan. 4, 1965, emboldened by 10 cans of beer, Jenkins took the lead of his patrol.

Maybe he just went out looking for a bathroom?

[Captain Japan]

This story is similar to the bit in Time...
Jenkins deserted 'out of fear'
BBC

Charles Robert Jenkins, 64, who ended up living in the North for 39 years, was given a dishonourable discharge at his court martial in Japan.

He pleaded guilty to desertion, saying he wanted to avoid "hazardous" duty on the Korean peninsula and in Vietnam.

He also admitted aiding the enemy by teaching English in North Korea, but denied encouraging disloyalty.

"Ma'am, I am in fact guilty," Jenkins earlier told the judge, Colonel Denise Vowell, in sometimes tearful testimony at the court hearing in Camp Zama, the headquarters of the US army in Japan.

[Taro Toporific]

Late at night on Jan. 4, 1965, emboldened by 10 cans of beer, Jenkins took the lead of his patrol.

Maybe he just went out looking for a bathroom?

How the hell did walk through a minefield after drinking ten brewskies, let alone "lead" a patrol?


Anyway, now he's living large on my tax money. They're getting 300,000yen a month, allowed to make supplimental income, and they don't have to pay rent -- on Sado Island they're wealthy.

....If the family decides to settle in Japan permanently, it will be eligible for additional financial support from the government based on the number of family members. In the Soga family's case, they would receive 300,000 yen every month.

news
CRIME-ACCIDENT
Jenkins, family get green light to live in Japan
The Yomiuri Shimbun, Nov 4
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20041105wo23.htm

[maraboutslim]

They're getting 300,000yen a month, allowed to make supplimental income, and they don't have to pay rent -- on Sado Island they're wealthy.

Damn, sign me up! Can I get that deal, but on okinawa or one of those "tokyo" islands way the hell out there?

[Taro Toporific]

They're getting 300,000yen a month, allowed to make supplimental income, and they don't have to pay rent -- on Sado Island they're wealthy.

Damn, sign me up! Can I get that deal, but on okinawa or one of those "tokyo" islands way the hell out there?

Ya gotta looove it ---- 300,000yen a month is twice as much as Charles Jenkins ever made in a year.

[Taro Toporific]

Yikes, FG's own Marvin waxes poetic about the "why" of Charles Jenkins....

Love and hate the bonds that got Jenkins through hell in the Worker's Paradise
By Marvin Feltcher
Mainichi Daily News
November 6, 2004
.... [Teaching English] was this job that led to Jenkins being found guilty of aiding the enemy, an offence for which he could have been handed a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. He was dismissed from the position after effectively reaching his use-by date.
"They didn't want my pronunciation no more," he said in his deep Southern drawl tinge with slurs suggesting years of hard drinking. "North Koreans said our pronunciation had been corrupted by North Korean language. To be honest, they kicked us out."

[Marvin Feltcher]

Yikes, FG's own Marvin waxes poetic about the "why" of Charles Jenkins....

It was hard not to...He's been through hell. I was by no means a supporter until seeing the court martial. But, he's a wreck. He's being jailed for precisely the right amount of time. I hope they suspend the sentence and let him go as soon as possible.
Soga is truly amazing.
I only wish they'd told us even more about life with Lil' Kim.
It was fascinating stuff....really sad.

[Taro Toporific]

I hope they suspend the sentence and let him go as soon as possible.....
I only wish they'd told us even more about life with Lil' Kim.
It was fascinating stuff....really sad.

U.S. Army Deserter Jenkins to Be Freed
Friday November 26, 2:21 AP
U.S. Army deserter Charles Jenkins will be released this week from a jail near Tokyo, six days earlier than planned, a media report said Thursday.
Jenkins, who was convicted of desertion to North Korea and aiding the enemy in a Nov. 3 court-martial and sentenced to 30 days imprisonment, will be released at a U.S. naval base in Yokosuka on Saturday, Kyodo News agency reported, citing unnamed sources......
It will take about a week for Jenkins to be formally discharged from the U.S. Army after his release. The Jenkins family plans to return to Soga's hometown in Sado Island in northern Japan, Kyodo said.

[Taro Toporific]

Ain't this an anti-climatic ending?

(Nov 24) CAMP ZAMA, JAPAN -- The U.S. Army Japan Public Affairs Office will not inform the media or speculate as to how and when Pvt. Charles Jenkins will return to Camp Zama. Jenkins will eventually come to Camp Zama to out process from the U.S. Army. He will be treated with dignity and respect during his separation process, as he has been throughout his entire time with the U.S. Army Japan.
The U.S. Army will treat Jenkins the same as any other Soldier being discharged from the Army. The U.S. Army will make the process as quick and as simple as possible for Jenkins and his family....
<snip>
....There will be no media opportunities on Camp Zama regarding Jenkins. regarding Jenkins may be referred to his legal representative, Capt. Culp.
--30--
http://www.usarj.army.mil/news/media_Advisory/NewsRelease17.pdf

[Taro Toporific]

[Captain Japan]

Jenkins cries with joy after release from jail
Japan Times

CAMP ZAMA, Kanagawa Pref. (AP) Free for the first time in nearly four decades, U.S. Army deserter Charles Jenkins sobbed with joy as he was released from a military jail on Saturday after serving 25 days for abandoning his squad and crossing the border into North Korea in 1965.

The frail 64-year-old, still in uniform and carrying a heavy duffel bag, broke down in tears after arriving at Camp Zama, the U.S. Army's Japan headquarters, where he was flown by Blackhawk helicopter after completing his sentence at the naval prison in Yokosuka.

When asked how he felt, Jenkins said he was "happy," and then sobbed for several moments.

"Forty years is a long time," he said.

Looks like that duffel is carrying him...

[Taro Toporific]

Deserter regrets 40 years in NKorea
12/6/2004
NEW YORK (AFP) - A US Army deserter said the one thing he did right during his 40 years in North Korea (news - web sites) was to leave the country, which was training his daughters as spies, in an interview published.
"I made a big mistake of my life, but getting my daughters out of there, that was one right thing I did," Charles Robert Jenkins told Time magazine 40 years after he downed 10 beers and wandered across the demilitarized zone ...
....He said that the North Koreans wanted to use daughters Brinda, 19 and Mika, 21, as spies.
"They wanted us to have children," Jenkins told Time, "so they could use them later."

[Mulboyne]

[Captain Japan]

Ex-US deserter Jenkins hopes to make first visit home in decades
Channel News Asia

TOKYO : Charles Jenkins, a former US soldier who deserted to North Korea in 1965 and recently settled in Japan after a court martial, hopes to travel home for the first time in decades to see his aging mother, an official said.

The 65-year-old Jenkins, who lives with his Japanese wife Hitomi Soga and their two daughters on her home island of Sado, will apply for a US passport at the embassy in Tokyo, possibly in early March, the Sado mayor told a news conference....the rest...

[Captain Japan]

Jenkins to publish autobiography, written by Time bureau chief
Kyodo via Japan Today
Saturday, February 26, 2005 at 07:49 JST

NIIGATA — Charles Jenkins, whose wife is former Japanese abductee to North Korea Hitomi Soga, has decided to publish an autobiography, sources close to him said Friday. The publisher, the date of publication and the amount of the contract have yet to be decided, the sources said.

Jenkins, 65, signed up with Time magazine's Tokyo bureau chief Jim Frederick, who will write the book based on interviews with him. The book will cover Jenkins' life at large, including his 1965 desertion to North Korea, events there, and his life in Japan since he came to his wife's homeland last July. (Kyodo News)