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The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea by Charles Robert Jenkins
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To begin with, it’s abundantly clear that the current, unhappy state of the Korean peninsula was born in the waning days of World War II.
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