Callous? Maybe.
Bad taste? Sure
Truthful? Yes
You don’t go to some Dictator strong-hold and start acting a d!ck.
Nor, like those hikers, back-pack through a war-zone.
Deserved? No. Expected? Duh!
Did he do something else besides steal a sign?
You say the liberal professor is truthful, but that he didnt deserve what he got. The professor said he did.
And, um, what makes you think he acted like a dick?
“Callous? Maybe.
Bad taste? Sure
Truthful? Yes”
Exactly. North Korea is not some fanciful excursion destination. Whomever or whatever put this “adventure” together needs to be keel hauled and thoroughly scourged in the name of reckless stupidity.