(2)Jenkins happy to be home after 40-year absence

(2)Jenkins happy to be home after 40-year absence

WELDON, United States - Charles Jenkins (R), a 65-year-old former U.S. Army sergeant who spent decades in North Korea as a deserter, poses with his mother Pattie Casper (C) and her Japanese wife Hitomi Soga (L) in Weldon, North Carolina, on June 14. ''I feel very happy,'' Jenkins told reporters as he smiled and held his 91-year-old mother.

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