Episode 65 - Joseph Dresnok

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Comedy

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Joseph Dresnok was a Private in the US Army stationed along the Korean DMZ. He quickly became depressed and developed one hell of an addiction to booze and sex workers. After getting in trouble one too many times and fearing he would get a courts martial, he took off running across the DMZ towards North Korea. Support the show and get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys buy a shirt: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Sources: "Crossing the Line" BBC 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd2dCk3N8cE https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/08/21/a-u-s-soldier-who-defected-to-north-korea-in-1962-has-died-his-pyongyang-born-sons-say/ Jenkins Robert. The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea. 2007. https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/04/29/meet-the-four-americans-who-defected-to-north-korea-in-the-1960s/

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0:00.0	These were golden gifts to the North Koreans by blowing them up as if you know these were people who saw the light and wanted to live under the mantle of Camelsong's leadership.
0:12.0	The US government I think was very sensitive about this. live under the mantle of Kim Il-Sung's leadership.
0:12.6	The US government, I think, was very sensitive about this.
0:14.8	They did not want publicity on these guys,
0:17.6	and they still don't.
0:19.3	I mean, I don't think now it's a conscious thing,
0:20.9	but in the 60s, I think it was quite conscious to play down and
0:24.6	hide these defections because they were more embarrassing to the United States than you might
0:29.5	think. North Korea,
0:33.0	and the world speak of our devices.
0:35.0	Where the rights is made for our presence in our country.
0:39.0	We could hear the loudspeakers with Dredesnock talking.
0:45.0	It was absolutely appalling that he would do this and turn on the whole United States Army.
0:51.0	The modern a eighth and and 9th cab,
0:54.0	come over to North Korea, we'll give you everything,
0:56.0	you know, give you money, we'll give you women, you'll have everything.
1:00.0	Every day or every week we would hear him.
1:05.0	He was telling us, you know, he had a lot of girls, you know,
1:09.0	and they were treating them like Raleigh.
1:11.0	We knew it was lies, but the younger kids that just got out of basic and
1:16.2	they were 18 really took it for heart and we were afraid that some of them might actually say, hey, this is a good life.
1:26.0	Let's go over.
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