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Fun / foon Tokyo
Friday, July 23, 2004
Four counts against the traitor Charles Jenkins
the traitor, Charles Jenkins Here are the four counts against Sergeant Jenkins:

- two specifications of soliciting other service members to desert, in
violation of Article 82, Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ);

- one specification of desertion, in violation of Article 85, UCMJ;

- one specification of aiding the enemy, in violation of Article 104, UCMJ;

- two specifications of encouraging disloyalty, in violation of Article 134,UCMJ.

More detail on the UCMJ see:
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/ucmj.htm

Some kind of plea bargain seems now almost certain. He'll be charged with desertion and Japan will have to hand him over under the terms of the SOFA. Much will depend on how sick is really is... he certainly is an alcoholic chain-smoker.

Posted by trek/taro at 2:51 PM KDT
Updated: Saturday, July 24, 2004 3:41 PM KDT
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Saturday, July 24, 2004 - 3:35 PM KDT

Name:

NTV is showing the Japanese doctor of Jenkins saying, "he ok in our preliminary checks...he needs to be continue hospitalization for severe stress." Note the translation from AP sucks.


US Consults Hospital on Accused Deserter
Guardian, UK - 23 July
TOKYO (AP) - A delegation from the U.S. Embassy met Friday with officials at the Tokyo hospital where accused U.S. Army deserter Charles Jenkins is receiving treatment, the Japanese government said.
... the doctors treating Jenkins said at a news conference that his condition did not seem to be too serious. Citing privacy laws, they refused to specify his ailment
"Looking at initial screening tests, his condition doesn't seem to be particularly bad,'' said the hospital's deputy chief, Dr. Atsushi Nakais .

Saturday, July 24, 2004 - 3:36 PM KDT

Name: Marked Trail

Kyodo / July 23, updated 23:20 wrote:
......"we have found following checkups in Jakarta and Japan that there is only a slight possibility that he has a serious disease,'' Atsushi Nagai, deputy director of the Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital, told a press conference.
But he added, ''As for his mental state, we believe he is suffering from severe stress due to various issues, and is no condition to return to normal life immediately. He needs to stay in hospital and try and regain his mental equilibrium.''


---Jenkins not in serious condition but to stay in hospital


TOKYO, July 23, Kyodo

Saturday, July 24, 2004 - 3:38 PM KDT

Name: taro

He better stay in that hotel forever...

Jenkins has already been charged by U.S.
TOKYO, July 24, 2004 updated 14:45 Kyodo - Charles Jenkins, whose Japanese wife is a former abductee repatriated from North Korea, has already been charged as an army deserter by U.S. authorities, government sources said Saturday.
He was charged shortly after he allegedly deserted and went to North Korea in 1965 while stationed near the demilitarized zone on the Korean Peninsula, the sources said.
The four charges against him are desertion, solicitation of desertion, wartime collaboration and encouragement of job disloyalty, they said.
The Japanese government had considered asking the United States to give Jenkins, 64, immunity from prosecution. But it has concluded that a plea bargain with the United States is the best way to resolve the issue....
Deputy Defense Undersecretary for Asian and Pacific Affairs Richard Lawless ... reiterated the U.S. policy of taking Jenkins into custody for a court-martial.
''The U.S. position is this man is subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice,'' he told reporters. ''He is an active duty U.S. serviceman.''

Asked whether the United States can be flexible on the case, Lawless replied, ''No.''

Saturday, July 24, 2004 - 3:44 PM KDT

Name: He's laughing at us all!

the traitor, Charles Jenkins

Saturday, July 24, 2004 - 4:44 PM KDT

Name: taro
Home Page: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-434418

Some See Jenkins As Gold Mine on N. Korea


Friday July 23, 2004 9:01 PM / By ROBERT BURNS
Guardian
AP Military Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - What some U.S. military officials really want from Army defector Charles Robert Jenkins is not prison time, but information. The former U.S. sergeant who has resurfaced after decades in North Korea could provide one-of-a-kind intelligence about the secretive communist regime, including how it trains spies.

If taken to a court martial, the desertion case could jeopardize that chance, and the chance of learning about other Americans who, like Jenkins, disappeared for decades into reclusive North Korea, some observers say.

With a non-threatening approach or offer of plea bargain, they say, U.S. officials might get Jenkins to tell what he knows about the other Americans - three of whom are alleged to be fellow deserters from the U.S. Army.

On its face, the Jenkins case is about a young soldier who allegedly turned his back on the Army and emerged into the glare of international notoriety 39 years later as a frail fugitive from justice.

But there is more to it than that.

North Korea is one of the most closed societies in the world, and its efforts to develop nuclear weapons make it a high and urgent priority for American intelligence.

The case touches on a suspicion long held by U.S. intelligence agencies that a number of Americans were used - willingly or otherwise - by North Korea to arm spies with English-speaking skills so they could target American interests in South Korea and beyond.

A Bush administration official closely involved in the Jenkins matter said this week that the former soldier might improve his legal situation if he gave U.S. officials useful information.

On the other hand, if Jenkins acknowledges even an indirect role in North Korean operations aimed at U.S. intelligence targets, he might complicate his case, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the Bush administration has yet to decide how it will pursue the case.

The Pentagon has not ruled out that some American soldiers taken prisoner during the 1950-53 Korean War may still be alive in North Korea, and it has asked the North Koreans to address the matter.

Jenkins was on patrol in the Demilitarized Zone that separates North and South Korea when he disappeared in 1965. The Army says he left notes indicating that he was deserting, but family members and others have questioned whether he might have been kidnapped.

The Pentagon has said it will seek to take custody of Jenkins, now that he has traveled to Japan for medical treatment. Doctors treating him said Friday his condition is not serious and he does not need urgent medical care, but more tests will be carried out.

Some question whether pressing charges would discourage Jenkins from revealing what he knows.

Jack Pritchard, a retired Army colonel who handled Korea policy issues at the White House in the mid-1990s and later at the State Department, said it would be ``absolutely foolish'' to approach Jenkins with the threat of court martial. Without that hanging over his head, the 64-year-old Jenkins might be more open with information about life inside the reclusive North, Pritchard said.

Pritchard believes the Japanese government will stall in responding to a U.S. request to take custody of Jenkins, because it wants him to be able to remain in Japan with his Japanese wife, Hitomi Soga, and their two daughters. He stayed behind when the three of them were allowed to leave North Korea in 2002, apparently because he feared being extradited to the United States.

``Stalling any moderate amount of time by Japanese standards would allow him to stay'' there for the rest of his life, Pritchard said.

Suh Dae Sook, a retired political scientist and expert on North Korea, said he doubts the North Korean government would have put Jenkins in a position to learn much about its inner workings.

Jenkins may, however, be able to shed light on the language instruction the North Korean military has used in training people sent abroad to spy. Suh said those spies in some cases may have assumed the identities of kidnapped Japanese girls.

``The purpose of all this English education is mostly for spy operations in South Korea,'' Suh said.

A July 1989 U.S. military intelligence report said three Americans ``known among North Korean people as defectors'' were teaching English at the Reconnaissance Bureau Foreign Language College in Pyongyang, the capital. It said two of the three also had appeared in a North Korean movie.

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