Posted on 07/12/2004 12:21:10 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
What if he is not proven guilty?
I don't understand why NK would let him go, and then send three obvious agents to harass him in a third-party country while he's under direct sponsorship of the Japanese.
And why would Jakarta agree to this arrangement (aside from Japan's clout). NK is on Indo's visa-restricted list.
Indo's lack of a U.S. extradition treaty seems irrelevant, since Indo offers only 2-month nonrenewable visas (unless, I suppose, under prodding from Japan). Still, it would seem remarkable for Indo to offer him any kind of asylum. He's definitely off to Japan at some point.
So why didn't they just ship him to Japan in the first place? Why Indo?
Very strange indeed.
I agree; after all, this guy has punished himself about as much as a person can.
Since he was doing a hitch in South Korea he wouldn't have to do one in Vietnam - so why he would want to defect to the North I can't imagine - the guy must be nuts - probably was of minimal value to the North - and will now probably be considered a security threat and an embarrassment to them.
He's not gonna' be punished. There is clearly something else at stake here, and Jenkins is merely a pawn.
I like the way you think. That works for me.
Yeah, this is hilarious. Especially, Japanese TV crew following N. Koreans and checking out what is left of their dinner at a party after they left.
I'm just kiddin'; do as you choose.
gitmo the bastard
Not guilty of desertion and defecting to the enemy? Well, I guess that he could have been there all along and they just missed him somehow. NOT!
What's all this debrief crap? Why would he know anything of value any more than any other NK unless he was in the gubmint there? Shoot the bastid and pi$$ on the carcass for the sake of my father-in-law.
Ross perot defected???
so what's so special about Jenkins ? My opinion is let Jenkins in North Korea and let him live in hardships and poverty.I think that's an apt punishment for a traitor like him.he's a shame to american people and truly not deserving to be an american.I'm not an american myself, I'm a Filipino but I think he denounced his birthright when he deserted,right? He wanted to be a communist so let him be
Why do you say that?
Whatever the facts look like, in our system there is at least a presumption of innocence. I haven't read any of the testimony in the case or whatever investigation the Army conducted at the time. Until he admits guilt, or is duly convicted by Court Martial, he's only an alleged deserter.
I think that Japan should build some nukes and use 'em on Pyongang. The kidnapping of Japanese citzens by NK agents should be considered and act of WAR!
As the deserter, Jenkins, we should snatch him (killing all of his handlers in the process), interrogate him and shoot him.
That is why those people don't run public policy.
There is a lot more here than meets the eye and clearly there is something more we can get out of it to our advantage.
It is plausible, although not likely, that he was one of many Westerners kidnapped to the North, back in those days (1960s, 1970s) due to inconsistencies and oddities in his letters he sent back to his relatives.
The Pentagon's case is not so hot either from what I have gathered, as they have "lost" a number of the letters he sent from Pyongyang that his relatives never saw.
If he is guilty, in US custody and with his case adjudicated lawfully under the UCMJ, we will find out what the truth is. In the meantime, what people don't realize is the guy lived in the foreigners complex in Pyongyang, or at Amnokgang Teacher's College, interracting with other Americans, some of them POWs and a few of them perhaps up there in the hellish DPRK against their will for years. They may be dead now, for all we know, but that alone is a treasure trove of intelligence from such a hermetically-sealed adversary nation as the DPRK. Not to mention, he is not 'starving' in one of these enclaves. While not paradise, he certainly is not starving up there and given privileges. For whatever reason, he has outlived his usefulness to the North Koreans. It is now up to the US, IMHO, to make USEFUL TO US. At any rate, Jenkins, in appeared at a "public function" (i.e. the Japanese Ambassador to Indonesia's residence for dinner) without his Kim Il Sung badge, is tantamount to saying he is going West, and that is also what has pissed off the North Koreans in his hotel who are trying incessantly through the Japanese government, Japanese journalists and even lowly hotel workers to "access him." As of this morning, it was clear he wanted to go to Japan, and that is where he will probably end up in several days, with the US looking the other way for the time being (at least until after the November elections) when other arrangements will probably be made out: suspended sentence in turn for intelligence, denial to ever return to the US, whatever.
VIDEO LINK EXPIRED, NO LONGER GOOD (Tuesday, U.S. Time), as expected. Hope somebody archived it.
What you said. Scary, isn't it. I spend less time on FR than I used to, and more on blogs.
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