Bad tour group, huh?
I don’t know that it was a bad group. Not sure it would be their fault.
I’m just saying he wasn’t to blame for the evil he experienced. I. can understand a young man believing he’d be safe with a tour group in NK if there have been many previous tours with no incident.
Taking a tour of NK is akin to taking a tour of a working concentration camp. I don’t understand why anyone would want to. But he really brought it on himself by tearing down a propaganda poster. It’s called a rogue regime and a police state for a reason. Being American doesn’t give you a pass in a place where they hate Americans. Stupid hurts.
It was called the Young Pioneers Group. Out of China, they said they specialized in ‘going places your parents don’t want you to go’. IIRC, Castro’s youth in Cuba were called the Young Pioneers. Is there a connection? I don’t know, but we really don’t know the poor guy actually stole a sign....we only know he confessed to it. I have always wondered if he was being made an example. Sadly, from what I have read, he has been nearly brain dead since April, 2016. IIRC, his parents have custody of his brain scans from North Korea, done in April last year. He had destruction in all areas of his brain then, probably likely beatings. I suspect he was on life support all this time and his parents, after seeing his situation, pulled the plug. Lots of speculation, but logical. Sad for all the Warmbier family.