Tokyo - March 3, 2005 1. Zoom in to van carrying Charles Robert Jenkins, US Army deserter, pulling into US Embassy in Tokyo 2. Man checking under van for bombs 3. Close up of driver, van pulls into embassy 4. Various exteriors of embassy 5. Zoom in to van carrying Jenkins leaving embassy and driving away Sado - December 2004 3. Various of Jenkins being welcomed by Sado residents upon arrival STORYLINE: A US Army deserter who spent nearly 40 years in North Korea after abandoning his army unit in 1965, visited the US Embassy in Tokyo on Thursday to apply for an American passport. Charles Robert Jenkins, something of a celebrity in Japan, was hustled into the embassy compound on a bus with tinted windows. Embassy officials refused to comment because of privacy laws, but officials in his Japanese wife''s hometown said earlier he would make the visit to apply for a passport. The former US Army sergeant served 25 days in an American military jail last year for abandoning his US Army post in South Korea in January 1965 and fleeing to the North. Since then, he has been living in his wife''s hometown of Mano, on the northern Japan island of Sado. 64-year-old Jenkins has said he has no plans to return permanently to the United States, but would like to visit his home in North Carolina with his wife, Hitomi Soga, and their two North Korean-born daughters. Soga was kidnapped by North Korean agents when she was a 19-year-old student and taken to the isolated communist state in 1978. She married Jenkins soon afterward, but was only allowed to return to Japan in 2002 when North Korea reversed years of denial and admitted it had kidnapped 13 Japanese people in the 1970s and 1980s. Jenkins and their daughters left North Korea and joined Soga last July. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/c149eec458e878b2c90849a680ad9145 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork