GIs who defected to North Korea offer dicey precedent for latest U.S. soldier Pvt. Travis King who went AWOL
The Pentagon is scrambling to determine what led the U.S. private to defect, and the regime of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said nothing about the incident. Some clues to Pvt. King’s future may be gleaned from the experiences of U.S. deserters who defected to the isolated hard-line state from the 1960s into the 1980s.that Pvt. King was detained after assaulting a South Korean national and damaging a police car.
Pvt. King’s case is unusual but not unique. Their stories are little-known footnotes of Cold War history, but six American GIs provide possible road maps to his future — though a COVID-19-era development could be a benchmark for a bloodier outcome. In North Korea, they studied state propaganda and taught English. The five White defectors earned some local fame by playing foreign villains in domestic TV and film productions. Pvt. King is Black.
In 2004, Charles Jenkins, a former sergeant from North Carolina, became the only U.S. military defector to leave North Korea. His departure was a byproduct of warming ties, which would later cool, between Pyongyang and Tokyo. He made clear that his defection was an impulsive error fueled by alcohol against a background of fear of deployment to Vietnam. He said his life in North Korea was difficult and frightening and he was under near-constant surveillance.
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