A review by smokeyshouse
The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea by Jim Frederick, Charles Robert Jenkins

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

The most fascinating part of the memoir was toward the end, where Jenkins describes the negotiations between PM Koizumi and the North Korean government for the release of the abducted Japanese citizens, and subsequently the release of Jenkins and his daughters Mika and Brinda to go to Japan.  I started the memoir with a prejudiced bias against Jenkins, but ended with a feeling of sympathy and compassion towards him.