Former US sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins, who is serving a 30-day confinement term in Japan for deserting to North Korea four decades ago, may be released early for good behaviour, Kyodo news agency said yesterday. Kyodo said the 64-year-old Jenkins may be let go as early as the end of this month, but it added that he would likely spend the US Thanksgiving Day on Thursday in detention. Jenkins was given the confinement and a dishonourable discharge from the military at a court martial on November 3 after confessing to deserting to North Korea in 1965 while on patrol near the demilitarised zone between the two Koreas. Quoting US Army sources, Kyodo said the military was likely to apply a provision to Jenkins that the jail term for a prisoner could be cut for good behaviour by five days or more. Jenkins is currently serving his term which runs until December 3 at a US military facility just west of Tokyo.
| Just don't ever let him set foot in the US ever again. |
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