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    James Joseph Dresnok (Korean: 제임스 조새프 드레스녹, November 24, 1941 – November 2016) was an American defector to North Korea, one of seven U.S. soldiers to defect...
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  • having mixed children with them. Thus, Bumbea was forcibly married to James Joseph Dresnok, with whom she had two sons. Bumbea died in 1997 of lung cancer in...
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    Republic of Korea, until Private James Joseph Dresnok defected in August. In the 2006 documentary movie Crossing the Line, Dresnok recalls waking up to see a...
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  • Roy Chung – American defector to North Korea (c. 1957 – c. 2004) James Joseph Dresnok – American defector to North Korea Charles Robert Jenkins – American...
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    (1943–1983) of Urbana, Illinois, deserted in May 1962 at age 19 James Joseph Dresnok (1941–2016) of Richmond, Virginia, deserted on August 15, 1962, at...
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    Japan in 1976 and gained political asylum in the United States. James Joseph Dresnok, a US Army private who defected to North Korea by sneaking across...
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  • produced the documentary. The film is about a former U.S. Army soldier, James J. Dresnok, who defected to North Korea on 15 August 1962. It was directed and...
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  • Wallis Suh (1950, died 1969) Larry Allen Abshier (1962, died 1983) James Joseph Dresnok (1962, died 2016) Jerry Wayne Parrish (1963, died 1998) Charles Robert...
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  • (1943–1983) of Urbana, Illinois, deserted in May 1962 at age 19. James Joseph Dresnok (1941–2016) of Richmond, Virginia, deserted in August 1962 at age...
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  • Unsung Heroes was also responsible for propelling American defectors James Joseph Dresnok and Charles Robert Jenkins to minor celebrity status in North Korea...
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