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[Sheb]

Poor guy, being stuck as an hostage for a crappy regime.

[Elephant Parade]

I'm surprised someone would actually be dumb enough to commit a crime in North Korea, but that obviously doesn't justify fifteen years of slavery. I feel pretty bad for him, honestly.

[martinuzz]

Stealing banners or towels from hotels is something students tend to do. Doing so in North-Korea though, does not really strike me as something a bright young academic would do. So either this guy was really, really dumb, or DPRK just made it up so they could capture him.

I tend to not believe in students going on tour trips to North Korea though. Guy is probably CIA, sent to check on nuclear progress or whatever. In which case, 15 years is harsh, but it's a risk of the trade, so I can't really feel too sorry for him.

[BFEL]

Y'know what, if you're stupid enough to go to North Korea of your own free will, you pretty much deserve what you get.

[Sheb]

I don't think he's CIA or anything. There is a fair amount of people going to NK as tourist. I can totally see a guy going there and trying to steal shit to brag in front of his friends back home.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I think it's plausible the story is actually as written since he said his church told him to do it. There are lots of evangelical projects that focus on infiltration of North Korea, albeit most of them South Korean.

[Sheb]

Why would his church want him to steal a banner?

[ChairmanPoo]

Yeah. Which is pretty stupid to do anywhere, least of all in Best Korea. And least of all in the middle of a bout of nuclear posturing.

Dont worry though, they wont actually keep him 15 years in forced labor. It's not like this hasn't happened in the past. They'll keep him in a cell somewhere for a couple of months, sabre-rattle a bit, and release them as soon as they have managed to get some political-economical concession from the US govt.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Why would his church want him to steal a banner?

Fuck if I know, maybe to make a statement? Like everything else that comes out of NK, this is inexplicable.

[ChairmanPoo]

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[Catmeat]

He deserves his time.
If I where the leader, I would have him paper cut with said banner until he crys like a little boy, then after the two papercuts I would dip him in a very hot bath and get him dileriously hot, make him run naked in a cold field and blow him up with a heat seaking missile.
Then nuke the moon while smoking his remains in the banner and drinking the finest Korean rice wine, with my american buddy.... hmmm mel gibson... yes he will be my buddy

[Loud Whispers]

Catmeat you seem very fond of wanting to nuke the moon

Need I remind you this will not cure werewolves

[martinuzz]

They'll keep him in a cell somewhere for a couple of months, sabre-rattle a bit, and release them as soon as they have managed to get some political-economical concession from the US govt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX0XDHF3M60

[ChairmanPoo]

He deserves his time.
If I where the leader, I would have him paper cut with said banner until he crys like a little boy, then after the two papercuts I would dip him in a very hot bath and get him dileriously hot, make him run naked in a cold field and blow him up with a heat seaking missile.
Then nuke the moon while smoking his remains in the banner and drinking the finest Korean rice wine, with my american buddy.... hmmm mel gibson... yes he will be my buddy

Why do I have the unsettling suspicion that you were being actually turned on by what you typed?

[TempAcc]

I wouldn't doubt they made it up just to put the guy in some crummy cell and then use it as leverage to get some sort of concession. Its not like they haven't done so in the past.