If you go by his version of what happened, then you’re talking about a very unlucky person who got treated badly by the people he went to for help.
On the other hand, if you go by what seems to be reality, you’re talking about someone who wasn’t that hot of a soldier, got quite drunk, and then ran away to what was obviously the wrong place to run away to. And then his captors kidnapped a Japanese woman to “give to him” because, you guessed it, they can’t be having any foreigner polluting the purest Korean blood. Finally, Jenkins got to leave North Korea, and was arrested in Japan by US military police, tried by court-martial, incarcerated, and received a dishonorable discharge. Japan then allowed him to immigrate to be with his wife (the aforementioned kidnap victim) and daughters. He wrote The Reluctant Communist and lived a fairly obscure life until his death at the age of 77.