Posted on 06/19/2017 1:42:52 PM PDT by NohSpinZone
A tourist and he stole a political poster.
Wow. Terrible.
Un will get his.
"...going on the tour in the first place..."
I give him a pass for going there. First off he was 22, probably not too hip to what was going on in the real world, and second, he was scammed into going there by these North Korean scam artists in China who told him it was perfectly safe. And from what I read their advertisements were directly aimed at young people with the slogan “The place your parents don’t want you to go to” Something like that, it was a fishing expedition by the Norks solely to get young Americans in there to kidnap and use as bargaining chips. My theory is they picked the tallest, best looking guy there to create the most emotional response, and they picked him. As far as I’m concerned though, this is an act of war. This is a foreign government kidnapping our citizen and killing him. What’s the difference if they shot off a nuke towards the USA and killed 100,000 in San Diego? There’s no difference except in numbers. In both cases US citizens died on US soil directly as a result of the actions of North Korea. Personally, I would inform China that if they do not do something to get this fat f**k out of power, that there would be war. China does not want to go to war.
I think he was invited as a student. The NK govt has some program where they invite students from all over the world. For what I do not know. Maybe someone else can enlighten.
Prayers for the repose of his soul.
And also prayers for his family as they deal with this grief after a glimmer if hope.
Who didn’t see this coming?
The Norks need dollars. These tours are common “daring” holidays. I know two people who have been on them without incident. One guy took a bunch of semi-illicit photographs and “smuggled” them out on an SD card. People don’t realize the DPRK-China border is fairly porous. They don’t care if impoverished people go back and forth. The DPRK government is most analogous to a mafia crime family and has allies in the Triads and corrupt Chinese government. Another thing most Americans don’t realize is that many South Koreans don’t want the DPRK regime to fall because they don’t want to deal with the refugees.
You could live 50 years and nothing will happen to North Korea. America hasn't the intelligence or guts. America is done.
Agreed! NK had to ensure that no information was retrievable from Otto once he left. So frying his brain was the only option.
When I traveled the Soviet Union, I had to assume I was being watched at all times!! Including while in the hotel room! Sleeping!! For Otto to think he could steal NK property (a poster) and get away with it, was fatal shortsightedness.
The Norks probably sent him home so he would not die in NK.
If he got his education in public schools and did not specialize in real history in college then he likely only knew what he saw in MSM and had no knowledge with which to compare and evaluate.
And they will lose. Badly.
If they want to win, they need to wait about 20 to 30 years til us old farts who actually know how to fight die off. Then they’ll just have to deal with the millennias. Won’t be much of a fight.
Maybe. Also may have been lack of basic nutrition plus beatings for 17 months...
These sleeper cell NORKs won't be fighting with guns or knives.... but rather spreading biological and chemical agents in subway systems and such. It won't matter if your a hardcore Marine vet or a snowflake metrosexual millennial douche...
Kudos to our pro-America Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson.
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