US defector surrenders
Saluting and standing at attention, accused American army deserter Charles Jenkins surrendered to US military authorities at a base near Tokyo, today, to face charges that he left his unit in 1965 and defected to North Korea.
Jenkins, 64, turned himself in at the US Army’s Camp Zama, accompanied by his Japanese wife and two daughters.
Earlier, Jenkins, looking grim but determined, had left the Tokyo hospital where he has lived since arriving in Japan in July.
He is charged with defecting to the North, where he lived for 39 years, and faces a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted.
While in the reclusive communist state, he made propaganda broadcasts and played devilish Americans in anti-US films.
