North Korean Actors - James Joseph Dresnok, Song Hye-Rim, List of North Korean Actors (Paperback)

Chapters: James Joseph Dresnok, Song Hye-Rim, List of North Korean Actors. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: James Joseph Dresnok (born 1941) is an American defector to North Korea. He was featured on the CBS magazine program 60 Minutes on January 28, 2007, as the last United States defector alive in North Korea. James Joseph Dresnok refers to himself as Joe Dresnok and is referred to as both James Dresnok and Joe Dresnok in news reports, sometimes as both in the same report. He was the son of Joseph Dresnok I (19171978), and has a brother Joseph Dresnok II (born 1946). In 1951, when Joe was 5 and James was 9, the family split up while living in Richmond, Virginia. Joe said he stayed with his father, and moved with him to Pennsylvania and lost contact with his mother and James. The arrangement with his father was temporary. In his teens, James Dresnok was placed in a foster home, dropped out of school, and joined the Army one day after his 17th birthday. In his documentary he explains that after marrying an American girl at a young age, he was deployed in West Germany for two years. He prides himself on truly loving her and being loyal to her during that time. However, when he came back she was in another relationship. He said the good thing was that she did not get pregnant by him because he had promised that "I would never abandon my children." When declaring this he cried in front of the camera. Dresnok was a Private First Class with a U.S. Army unit along the Korean Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea in the early 1960s. After his wife in the United States left him for another man, he re-enlisted and was sent to South Korea. Soon after his arrival, he found himself facing a court martial for forging signatures on paperwork that...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1961411