Former U.S. Army Sgt. Charles Jenkins believes his conviction and sentence to 30 days in jail for desertion after nearly 40 years in North Korea is "very fair," his military counsel said Thursday.
Bringing one of the Army's longest desertion cases to a close, Jenkins, now 64 and in poor health, pleaded guilty Wednesday to abandoning his unit early in 1965 and to aiding the enemy by teaching English to North Korean military cadets.
"Sgt. Jenkins and his family believe the sentence was very fair," Culp said in an interview.