A U.S. Army deserter who spent decades in North Korea says his communist keepers abused him and controlled every aspect of his life, down to telling him how often to have sex.
"It was the worst mistake anyone ever made," Charles Jenkins said. "In words, I cannot express the feelings I have towards North Korea, the harassment I got, the hard life."
In an interview airing Sunday on CB...
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To appreciate this show it helps to have some exposure to 20th-century painting and the masterful ceramic traditions of Europe and Asia. Erotic Grecian urns and Japanese erotic prints seem sources of inspiration, with Persian metal vases and cloisonné alluded to. Eastern religious sculpture and philosophy are also helpful for understanding later works. But all Takamori's work is unflinchingly ...
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In 1980, he married a Japanese woman who had been kidnapped and taken to North Korea to train spies in Japanese language and culture. She was released in 2002 and Jenkins followed two years later, surrendering to U.S. authorities and serving a month in jail for desertion.
Jenkins told "60 Minutes" that his government handlers assigned him a Korean woman with whom he was supposed to have s...
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Print-friendly version Army deserter recalls sex orders, abuse after fleeing to NKorea Former U.S. Army deserter to North Korea Charles Jenkins holds his book "To Tell the Truth" during a news conference to mark its publication in Tokyo. (Reuters)
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On my blog, I devote regular space to bashing Bush (though I also cover books, sex, laughs, and philosophical thoughts).
Why? He drives me crazy, because in my view, he represents the worst of America: morally dubious because he covertly backs torture; socially suspect because he favors the rich and ignores the poor; economically unsound because he's a borrow-and-spend profligate who's ...