James Joseph Dresnok: US soldier who defected to North Korea in 1962 died last year aged 74, sons reveal 'Comrade Joe' starred in propaganda movies for rogue nuclear state after crossing border in ...

James Joseph Dresnok, believed to be the last remaining US soldier in North Korea, died last year, two of his sons said in video posted on a North Korean state-run news site.

Ted and James - the Pyongyang-born sons of James Joseph Dresnok, the former American GI who defected to North Korea in 1962 (Minjok Tongshin/YouTube) Your support helps us to tell the story.

Five decades after a 21-year-old soldier from Richmond, Virginia, named James Joseph Dresnok sprinted through the demilitarized zone and began his new life as a propaganda tool for North Korea, his… ...

The last known American defector to North Korea says he now feels "at home" in the North and "wouldn't trade it for nothing," but his eyes well with tears at images of his hometown in Virginia.

Next week in Pyongyang, James Joseph Dresnok, a U.S. Army soldier who in 1962 fled into North Korea, will see and critique "Crossing the Line," British director Daniel Gordon's documentary of his ...

North Korea gets that rarest of bouquets -- a positive perspective from a former G.I. -- in "Crossing the Line," a portrait of the last U.S. defector still living in the country, Virginia-born ...

Screenshot of interview of Ted (right) and James (left) Dresnok, sons of an American defector to North Korea. It was 1962 when James Joseph Dresnok, a American GI who was stationed in South Korea ...

Their names are Ted and James, and they look like the kinds of men you might bump into on the streets of Richmond, Virginia, where their father was born.But they’re speaking perfect North Korean ...

James Joseph Dresnok, believed to be the last remaining US soldier in North Korea, died last year, two of his sons said in video posted on a North Korean state-run news site.

James Joseph Dresnok, believed to be the last remaining US soldier in North Korea, died last year, two of his sons said in video posted on a North Korean state-run news site.