The Reluctant Communist
My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea
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The Reluctant Communist
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Narrated by:
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John McLain
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In January of 1965, 24-year-old US Army sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins abandoned his post in South Korea, walked across the DMZ, and surrendered to communist North Korean soldiers standing sentry along the world's most heavily militarized border. He believed his action would get him back to the States and a short jail sentence.
Instead he found himself in another sort of prison, where for 40 years he suffered under one of the most brutal and repressive regimes the world has known. This fast-paced, harrowing tale, told plainly and simply by Jenkins (with journalist Jim Frederick), takes the listener behind the North Korean curtain and reveals the inner workings of its isolated society while offering a powerful testament to the human spirit.
©2008 The Regents of the University of California; Foreword copyright 2008 by Jim Frederick (P)2018 Tantor