“Otto was a grown man.”
Lee, he was but a puppy. His risky but understandable action fed into his selection as a pawn. When unkind fate blessed him with the “opportunity“ to become a man, he sold out with vigor.
Sad indeed. But a well scripted, sniveling coward for sure.
Rab.
Yes, “but a puppy” as we all are at one point in our lives. Very sad.
Btut are the acts of “puppies” to guide our foreign policy decisions? Not at all.
Keith Laumer, who served a few years in diplomatic circles, wrote a great sci-fi series of books. The Retief series.
It’s light and fun, but true to diplomacy’s dicta.
Since you were not there, nor do I think you personally have ever faced personal physical torture (which the North Korean bastards are famous for) that he no doubt underwent, I don’t think you have much of a right to judge.
He was in college overseas on some kind of excursion involving his studies.
He was in a position to have been educated about the dangers of travelling to an unsafe foreign land.
NK is an untrustworthy actor in human rights. I can’t believe he was unaware of that fact.
But he chose to go anyway as an adult.