James Joseph Dresnok
Military Person
1941 –
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Who is James Joseph Dresnok?
James Joseph Dresnok is an American defector to North Korea, one of four American soldiers to defect after the Korean War.
After defecting, Dresnok worked as an actor and an English teacher in Pyongyang. He was featured on the CBS magazine program 60 Minutes on January 28, 2007, as the last United States defector alive in North Korea, and was the subject of a documentary film entitled Crossing the Line.
He calls himself Joe Dresnok and has been called both James Dresnok and Joe Dresnok in news reports, sometimes both in the same report.
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- Born
- 1941
Richmond - Also known as
- Joe Dresnok
- James Dresnok
- Parents
- Siblings
- Nationality
- North Korea
- Profession
- Lived in
- Pennsylvania
- Virginia
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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