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.
Pelley asked Jenkins what amazed him the most about the world since he left it in 1965.
He had never laid a hand on a computer, much less been on the Internet. He told 60 Minutes he was surprised there were so many women in the Army, that there were black policemen, and, as he put it, you can’t smoke anywhere anymore.
Jenkins says he had been told about the historic landing of men of the moon. “I was told that by the Koreans, one of the officers. They wouldn't say what country, but they said, ‘Una handa la’… some country landed on the moon.”
Today, Jenkins has landed on Sado Island, Japan, not far from the spot where his wife was kidnapped. But before he came to the family farm, he had to know that Hitomi’s love flowed from freedom, not slavery.
Jenkins volunteered to dissolve the marriage. “I told her, ‘In North Korea, it's one thing. This is Japan. You're still young. If you wish for me to go, I'll go.’ "
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Deserter Recalls N. Korean Hell -- (Page 1 of 3) Oct. 22, 2005
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Jenkins joined the North’s collection of American Army deserters. At the time, there were three others already living in North Korea. He shared a house with Larry Abshier, Jerry Parrish and James Dresnok.
