{"id":76493,"date":"2017-12-12T10:30:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T15:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76493"},"modified":"2017-12-12T10:10:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T15:10:38","slug":"charles-robert-jenkins-deserter-passes-at-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76493","title":{"rendered":"Charles Robert Jenkins, deserter passes at 77"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=76494\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76494\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Charles-Robert-Jenkins.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"260\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76494\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-northkorea-defector\/u-s-soldier-who-deserted-to-north-korea-in-1965-dies-aged-77-idUSKBN1E607N\">Reuters<\/a> reports that Charles Robert Jenkins who deserted from his US Army post in South Korea to the North in 1965 has passed at the age of 77;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He drank 10 beers, took his men on patrol and told them to wait while he checked the road below. He then walked towards North Korea, holding a rifle with a white t-shirt tied around it. He said he had planned to go to Russia and turn himself in, and had not expected North Korea to keep him.<\/p>\n<p>While in North Korea, where he taught English to soldiers and portrayed an evil U.S. spy in a propaganda film, Jenkins met and married Hitomi Soga, a Japanese woman 20 years his junior who had been kidnapped by North Korea to help train spies. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unlike Bergdahl, Jenkins actually spent time in jail for his walkabout after he returned to the real world in 2004. He died in his wife&#8217;s hometown in Japan. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters reports that Charles Robert Jenkins who deserted from his US Army post in South Korea &hellip; <a title=\"Charles Robert Jenkins, deserter passes at 77\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76493\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Charles Robert Jenkins, deserter passes at 77<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dumbass-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}