ti-American hostility acute, Sergeant Jenkins recalled that one day he was taken to a hospital where orderlies held down his forearm as a doctor, without using anesthesia, cut off a piece of skin tattooed, “U.S. Army.”
In his closing statement, he apologized to soldiers under his command, to the Army and to the nation.
“After living 40 years in North Korea, there is no freedom like the freedom in the United States,” he said. Referring to Kim Jong Il, he added, “People in North Korea suffer under a system that is evil and is run by a man who is evil to his bones.”
After one day in North Korea, he said, he realized that he had made a terrible mistake.
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