Meet Charles Robert Jenkins, an American detained by North Korea for 40 years
(LA Times Golf)

Charles Robert Jenkins deserted the U.S. Army on a freezing night in January 1965. He pounded 10 beers to quiet his nerves, and abandoned his patrol unit along the border dividing South and North Korea - a 160-mile-long, 2.5-mile-wide strip of mine-ridden no man´s land. He unloaded his M-16 rifle...