He served a deployment in South Korea in 1960 and in 1964, he was deployed a second time. Charles Robert Jenkins Defects to North Koreaīorn in 1940 in Rich Square, North Carolina, Charles Robert Jenkins joined the National Guard at fifteen and then the army in 1958. Charles Robert Jenkins is shown in a 1950s photo provided by his childhood friend Michael Cooke. It’s here that the fascinating story of US defector Charles Robert Jenkins played out. In the South was a US-backed dictatorship, propped up by a sizeable US military presence. To the North, Kim Il-sung, the revolutionary dictator and founder of Communist North Korea ruled a hermit kingdom. In Asia, North, and South Korea were only a decade past the terrible Korean War that tore through the peninsula. Events like the Cuban Missile Crisis and the building of the Berlin Wall were just a few examples of how extreme things were. Last updated on March 8th, 2023 at 05:45 amĬold War tensions between the USSR and the United States hit an all-time high during the 1960s.
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