... is an interesting front-page story about Charles Robert Jenkins, a US Army soldier who got drunk and crossed the Demilitarized Zone from South to North Korea in the 1960s, and spent 40 years as a somewhat-prisoner in the North.
Here's Blaine's WaPo video about the guy.
Jenkins isn't an intellectual, but he does have a fascinating story. Most poignantly, he was "introduced" to and eventually married a 20-yr-old Japanese woman who'd been kidnapped by North Korea on her way home from badminton practice. (The North Koreans also abducted the woman's mother at the same time but Mom was never seen again. It's hard to fathom the trauma of living through that.)
Jenkins' book, The Reluctant Communist, has just been translated into English. He is a big celebrity in Japan, and his book sold 300,000 copies here.
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