A senior U.S. official in charge of American soldiers classified as missing in action said Saturday he hopes to question alleged U.S. Army deserter Charles Jenkins about other Americans in North Korea.
Jerry Jennings, deputy assistant secretary of defense responsible for prisoners of war and missing personnel affairs, said he has received thousands of reports indicating movements of possibly thousands of Americans in North Korea.
Jennings said he only wants to ask Jenkins whether he has seen any other Americans in North Korea.
"If he answers 'yes,' I would like to know who they were. But if he says 'no,' I would have no other questions for him. He is no interest to me beyond that question," said Jennings, who was in Bangkok after a two-day consultation in Siem Reap, Cambodia, with the governments of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam on POWs and MIAs.