Charles Robert Jenkins,Jim Frederick's The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and PDF

By Charles Robert Jenkins,Jim Frederick

ISBN-10: 0520253337

ISBN-13: 9780520253339

ISBN-10: 0520259998

ISBN-13: 9780520259997

In January of 1965, twenty-four-year-old U.S. military sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins deserted his put up in South Korea, walked around the DMZ, and surrendered to communist North Korean squaddies status sentry alongside the world's such a lot seriously militarized border. He believed his motion might get him again to the States and a quick prison sentence. in its place he came upon himself in one other kind of legal, the place for 40 years he suffered below probably the most brutal and repressive regimes the area has recognized. This fast paced, harrowing story, informed evidently and easily by means of Jenkins (with journalist Jim Frederick), takes the reader at the back of the North Korean curtain and divulges the internal workings of its remoted society whereas providing a robust testomony to the human spirit.

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