James Joseph Dresnok
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James Joseph Dresnok was an American defector to North Korea, one of seven U.S. soldiers to defect after the Korean War.
US Army photo of Dresnok, prior to his defection
Doina Bumbea
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Doina Bumbea was a Romanian painter who was abducted to North Korea in 1978. Born in Bucharest, Bumbea left Romania in 1970 and went to Italy, where she studied fine arts and became a painter. There,
James Joseph Dresnok
…willful desertion" on his part as grounds. Dresnok was married twice more after defecting to North Korea. His second marriage was to a Romanian woman, Doina Bumbea (referred to as "Dona" in Jenkins's autobiography), with whom he had two sons, Theodore "Ted" Ricardo Dresnok (born 1980) and James Gabriel Dresnok…
Image of Doina Bumbea taken from her Facebook page, administered by her living brother