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Jenkins says daughters were meant to become N. Korean spies |
2004-12-06 |
Former U.S. Army Sgt. Charles Jenkins has said that he believes North Korea intended to make spies out of the two daughters he had in the country with Japanese abductee Hitomi Soga, Time magazine reported Sunday. The article, based on an interview with Jenkins and available on the Time website, said the 64-year-old American began to suspect at one point that his daughters Mika, 21, and Brinda, 19, were meant to be ''spy fodder.'' ''They wanted us to have children so they could use them later,'' the article titled ''In From the Cold,'' written by Jim Frederick, quoted Jenkins as saying. He describes his 1965 desertion from his army post in South Korea to North Korea as ''the stupidest thing I have ever done.'' Jenkins realized almost immediately that he had made a mistake, it said. Jenkins and the daughters remained in North Korea when Soga, 45, returned to Japan in October 2002 for the first time since she was abducted by North Korean agents in 1978. In July this year, they were reunited in Jakarta and came to Japan. |
Posted by:Fred |
#6 Some people's purpose in life is to serve as a horrible example for others. This is such a case. |
Posted by: SC88 2004-12-06 8:38:58 PM |
#5 I tend to agree with this comment by Jonah Goldberg:I'm all in favor of people getting justice for their crimes and all that stuff. But there are some mistakes whose consequences are so severe that further legal punishment really doesn't make any sense. For example, I think people should pay a fine if they try to feed cigars to bears at the zoo. But, if in the process the bear bites off half your face, the courts should pretty much stay out of it. |
Posted by: Mike 2004-12-06 3:36:21 PM |
#4 My sympathy meter went negative and the needle wrapped itself around the peg. |
Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-12-06 11:17:16 AM |
#3 My sympathy meter is busted. |
Posted by: john 2004-12-06 4:47:03 AM |
#2 Better to realize a mistake late than to never do - I say welcome back to God's country, where fathers don't think of daughters or kiddies as spies for the almighty State and Socialism. |
Posted by: JosephMendiola 2004-12-06 3:25:25 AM |
#1 do the crime, you do the time. Looks like he did his. |
Posted by: 2b 2004-12-06 12:51:05 AM |