“God bless him!”
I’m not sure that you read the article, he was responsible for his mother’s and brothers death. He seems to feel no remorse about it, it’s all just about him. Granted, the North Koreans turned him into what he is but I see no reason to celebrate. A sad story all around, I do wish someone would put a bullet into the heads of the family running North Korea and have no doubt that will come sooner or later.
He felt no remorse as a 14 year old, indoctrinated into believing that what he did was right. Currently he is wracked with the guilt of having his mother and brother murdered. Considering that they cut off some of his fingers and drove a hook through his stomach and hung him over a fire, I would give him some slack.
When I was hospitalised in South Korea with psychiatric problems I considered suicide once or twice. But I thought about how I’d escaped and been through such difficult times, and decided I should live on.” This mental illness was due to the new-found guilt he felt over his mother and brother. “That guilt will last until my death,” he adds.
I've read some of his other interviews, and he does feel remorse now, but not in the same way. He didn't love his family, he spent little time with them, and in fact he had only met his brother a couple of times before the night of his betrayal.
Can you image growing up where, as a young child of 3 or 4, you are completely taken away from your family and raised in a barracks? Where there is no familial love allowed or shown?
He had no remorse because he had no connection to them.
I read the article. He has remorse now. The guilt of it almost drove him to suicide and he says it will haunt him for the rest of his life.
If you’re born into slavery, torture and brainwashing, what other point of view do you have?
I think it is reason to celebrate that he escaped, and will have a chance for a somewhat normal life, and that he is able to share his story to give the rest of us some idea as to what goes on there, the levels to which a modern-day society can sink, etc.
-—I’m not sure that you read the article, he was responsible for his mother’s and brothers death. He seems to feel no remorse about it, it’s all just about him.-—
He was subjected to incomprehensible brainwashing from birth.
He now says that he will carry guilt for their deaths until he dies.
I hope he finds Jesus before then.
God help him and the other North Korean prisoners.
I saw an interview or something when he first spoke. You can easily tell there was deep brainwashing on the guy. He wouldn't "feel" normal reactions to anything we might normally react to. One becomes "conditioned" over time and this guy was born in the camp. That was the hell hole life he knew.
Not usrprisingly he had mental issues to contend with....disoriented hardly says enough after being in such a depraved environment. Can you even imagine the "norm" of eating your own vomit to stay alive.....years on end...and then seeing food thrown out just beyond your borders let alone the banquet throughout. I cannot imagine the questions and absolute shock coming from a camp to freedom. If I recall hementioned seeing N.Korea people walking about and thought they were living in abundance!
If you believe that these obama worshiping, obama voting, to use the term very loosely “young people” over here will have any more regrets or remorse about killing their parents when the time comes for them to do that than he did, you are only fooling yourself.