U.S. Soldier Who Defected to North Korea in 1962 Has Died, His Sons Say<br />James Dresnok said that My father finished his life with no regrets,<br />Mr. Dresnok strongly denied that in "Crossing the Line." Ted Dresnok said in the interview<br />that he had a son and a daughter, and James Dresnok Jr. said he had a daughter.<br />22, 2017<br />SEOUL, South Korea — One of a handful of American soldiers who defected to North Korea during the Cold War died last<br />year after living there for more than half a century, two of his sons said in a video on a pro-North Korea website.<br />He told the makers of "Crossing the Line" that he would not leave the North "if you put a billion damn dollars of gold on the table." "To his last day, our father had lived a life blessed by the love<br />and benefits from the party," Ted Dresnok said in the interview uploaded to Minjok Tongshin, Mr. Roh’s website.<br />The soldier, James Joseph Dresnok, died in November at 74, according to his sons, Ted Dresnok and James Dresnok Jr.<br />Mr. Dresnok was an American soldier based in South Korea, facing marital troubles<br />and a potential court-martial for forging a pass, when he defected to North Korea in 1962, crossing the heavily armed Demilitarized Zone between the two Koreas.
