Charles Robert Jenkins deserted from the U.S. Army in 1965, fleeing to North Korea. He spent nearly four decades in the communist country. (CBS)
(CBS) In 1965, Charles "Robert" Jenkins, an American soldier, did something impossible to understand. He deserted to North Korea and got stuck there.
For 39 years, six months and four days, he was trapped in a bizarre Stalinist state — hungry, suffering, told by the government how to live, what to read, and even when to have sex. Never before has an American lived among the secretive North Koreans so long and escaped to tell the tale.
