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["Alan MacHett" <machett AT ibiblio.org>]

just noticed this in the news.  It's old news, but now the "deserter" has
been reunited with his family in Indonesia.  What a strange tale!  I
wonder if he really did defect or if he's just another of N.Korea's many
captives.  How strange all this must be for the two daughters...

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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=5636552
Ex-U.S. GI Family Spends Day in Hotel Seclusion
Sun Jul 11, 2004 07:03 AM ET

JAKARTA (Reuters) - The reunited family of a former U.S. soldier, who
Washington said deserted to North Korea in 1965, had its first home
cooking in nearly two years this weekend, in their room at a luxury
downtown Jakarta hotel.

Japanese former abductee Hitomi Soga cooked curry rice for her husband
Charles Robert Jenkins, 64, and their daughters Mika and Belinda in the
presidential suite, a Japanese official told a news conference Sunday...

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=533&e=4&u=/ap/20040711/ap_on_re_us/nkorea_alleged_deserter
Family Asks Pardon for Accused Soldier
Sat Jul 10,10:28 PM ET

RALEIGH, N.C. - The family of a man accused of deserting his U.S. Army
unit nearly 40 years ago has asked President Bush (news - web sites) to
pardon the North Carolina native.

Lawyer James B. Craven III mailed a petition Friday to the Justice
Department (news - web sites) on behalf of Charles Robert Jenkins' family
in North Carolina, the Raleigh News and Observer reported.

Jenkins, 64, is still wanted on U.S. desertion charges. He was serving in
an Army unit based on the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea
(news - web sites) when he disappeared during a routine patrol in 1965...

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[*] This is an older article, but it contains a lot of background.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/FF05Dh05.html
Japan
The strange saga of Charles Robert Jenkins
Jun 5, 2004
By J Sean Curtin

The issue of an American soldier defecting or deserting to North Korea
some 40 years ago has become nettlesome in otherwise sunny US-Japan
relations: The Charles Robert Jenkins saga. Was he, is he, a deserter, a
defector, or a captive of Pyongyang? ...