Dies to Removal

There's something morally corrupt NK officials love above everything else. Good old Dollars. It turns out 'Murica has plenty of them and NK doesn't have enough. Hence, they have to ask for ransoms when people are dumb enough to wander into their realm.

maybe he stole the poster, maybe he didn't. It's irrelevant. He might as well have been arrested for stealing the soap bar from his hotel room, the endgame is forced labour untill Murica pays for the ransom.

It will happen eventually, but I sure hope that some US official will pimp slap the guy once he is in a plane back to his homeland. Might get some sense back in him.

The worse part is that there is a lot of papertrail of very similar situations of US tourists getting arrested on bogus charges because at the time the NK regime needed bargaining chips on the negotiation table so I mean...

If i learned anything from travelling a bit around the world it's: don't do stupid shit in weird countries.

Absolutely agree. For example, everytime I travel to Russia I keep a very very low profile until I am back on the return plane.

Basically the Dept. of state should point out that it is not a so good idea to travel to places like this and that you are on your own should you get in trouble despite previous warnings.

But honestly, this is just North Korean kidnapping some US citizen because reasons for later using him as a bargaining chip.

Which begs the question: why are people so stupid that they risk going to countries like this one in a time of diplomatic and military escalation, its obvious he was gon' get lynched. Next time plan your holidays in Syria

Shouldn't have stolen that poster bro.