Jerry Wayne Parrish
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Jerry Wayne Parrish, also known by his Korean name Kim Yu-il, was a United States Army corporal who was one of seven American soldiers to defect to North Korea, four of them during the 1960s, in the y
Jerry Wayne Parrish
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.
Jerry Wayne Parrish
…enlisted in the army at age 18 on September 10, 1962, and shipped to South Korea in February 1963. Following American soldiers Larry Allen Abshier and Joe Dresnok defection in 1962, Parrish crossed the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on December 6, 1963. Sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins, who in 1965 became the fourth to…
US Army photo of Dresnok, prior to his defection