Former US soldier accused of defecting to North Korea in 1965 has given himself up to the US authorities in Japan. The 64-year-old Charles Jenkins, who has been receiving medical treatment in Tokyo with his Japanese wife and two daughters, faces a possible court martial on charges of desertion. Though public sympathy for him has led to speculation that the American military may accept a plea bargain. However, to the US, he is a deserter still on active duty, thus subject to military discipline. Jenkins has never explained how he ended up in Pyongyang while his relatives say he was kidnapped. The fact that he married a Japanese woman while in North Korea, who herself was abducted to the North, has made the case all the more complex and sensitive. The family was dramatically reunited recently in Indonesia, which unlike Japan does not have an extradition treaty with the US.