40년전에 미군으로 근무중 이북으로 도주해서, 비난받아왔던 전미군병사가 마침내, 월요일 도쿄의 한 병원에 입원하여 쉬고 있는데, 많은 일본인들은 미국이 그의 복무 이탈죄 적용을 심하게 하지말고, 선처를 베풀어 그가 일본에서 그의 일본인 처와 같이 새로운 삶을 살수있도록 해 줄것을 기대하고 있다고 한다. 64세의 Charles Jenkins씨는 이떤 치료를 받아야 할것인가를 결정하기위해 정밀 검사에 들어간다고 병원 대변인이 발표했다. 일본 정부 발표에 따르면, 그는 북한에 거주하는 동안에 받았던 복부수술의후유증으로 고생을 해왔기 때문에 긴급한 병간호가 필요하다고 한다. 한편 미국무성은 월요일에 발표하기를, 그의 기소를 연기시킬수는 있어도, 법적 처벌을 위해 일본으로 부터 신병인도 받는것을 포기 하지는 않을것이라고 밝혔다. 1965년도에 한반도를 남북으로 갈라놓은 DMZ 부근에서 근무중 없어져 버렸던 Jenkins씨는 그의 부인과 이북에서 태어난 그들의 딸들과 같이 일본에 도착했었다. 일본수상 Koizmi 씨는 이북괴뢰 정권에 의해 납치되여, 희생자로서 고생해온 그녀의 고통과, 그의 부인에 대한 일본인들의 동정심이 수도없이 쏟아져 쌓여있는 상황하에서, 일본에 그를 데려오기위해 적극적인 로비활동을 폈었다. 이상은 오늘자 Globe and Mail 신문의 기사를 간추려 답글 형식으로 옮겼읍니다. 자세한 내용은 원문을 참조 하십시요. 일본 수상의 정치적 수완에 저 개인적으로 공감합니다. Accused defector prepares for treatment in Japan Associated Press Tokyo — A former U.S. soldier accused of defecting to North Korea nearly 40 years ago rested in a Tokyo hospital Monday, while many Japanese hoped Washington would be lenient in its desertion case against him so he may resettle here with his Japanese wife. Charles Jenkins, 64, was to undergo testing Tuesday to determine how he should be treated, a hospital official said. The Japanese government says Mr. Jenkins needs urgent care because he suffers from after-affects of abdominal surgery he received in North Korea. In Washington, the U.S. State Department said Monday that the United States may be willing to defer prosecution but is not willing to give up seeking his return from Japan to face the charges. Mr. Jenkins, who disappeared near the Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Korea in 1965, arrived in Japan on Sunday with his Japanese wife and their North Korea-born daughters. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi had lobbied hard for him to come to Japan amid an outpouring of public sympathy for his wife and her plight as a former victim of kidnapping by the North Korean state. His wife, Hitomi Soga, was abducted from her hometown on the small island of Sado in the Sea of Japan in 1978 and taken to the North to teach Japanese to communist spies. She lived for 24 years in the North, where she met and married Mr. Jenkins. Pyongyang allowed her to return to Japan two years ago, but she had to leave Mr. Jenkins and the two daughters behind. Ms. Soga, 45, and the Japanese government hope Mr. Jenkins will settle permanently with his family on Sado. Mr. Jenkins had initially been reluctant to join his wife in Japan for fear he would be extradited to the United States to face charges of desertion. After being reunited last week with his wife in Indonesia, which doesn't have an extradition treaty with the United States, he decided that he wanted to go to Japan for the sake of his family and was willing to risk being handed over to U.S. custody. Mr. Koizumi was prepared to ask Washington to give “special consideration” to Mr. Jenkins's plight in light of his health problems, Kyodo News agency reported Monday, without elaboration. Washington says Mr. Jenkins is still wanted on four counts, but U.S. ambassador to Japan Howard Baker indicated that the United States would not immediately move while he is being treated. According to U.S. Army records obtained by Associated Press, the desertion case seems to hinge on four notes he left behind on Jan. 5, 1965, when he disappeared while on patrol. “I am going to North Korea,” he wrote in one of the notes, to his mother. Another document is an intelligence message to the army's top general, saying Mr. Jenkins “apparently defected.” This message was shared with the CIA three days after his disappearance. It also says a search of army counterintelligence records yielded no evidence that Mr. Jenkins might be a communist agent. The same document says he left four notes “indicating that he did not intend to return.” The army concluded within weeks of his disappearance that Jenkins was a deserter and in violation of Article 85 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. If convicted of desertion, he could face life in prison. Desertion is punishable by death only in time of war, and the last soldier put to death for desertion was Private Eddie Slovik in 1945. Mr. Jenkins looked weakened and haggard when he got off his flight from Indonesia on Sunday, leaning heavily on a cane and his wife as he walked across the airport tarmac to a waiting bus. His sister, Pat Harrell, said Monday that she is waiting for approval from the Japanese government to join him in Tokyo. “I'm waiting for the right time to go,” she told the AP in a telephone interview from her home in northeastern North Carolina. “I want him to be well enough to spend some quality time with me.” Charles Jenkins, 64, disappeared near the Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Korea in 1965, when his younger sister was 15. He was not seen again outside North Korea until last week. Ms. Harrell, 55, said she spoke with her brother by telephone after his arrival last week in Indonesia. Despite the seriousness of the charges facing Mr. Jenkins, many Japanese hope the United States will go easy on him because of his wife and their daughters, Mika, 21 and Belinda, 18.