He’s 26 years old and from California. Quite possibly not quite right mentally. Do you really think he was put up to it by the Viet Cong? Come on.
Rumor has it that black pajamas and straw hat were found in the south lawn rice paddy :) /jk
Seriously though, old hatreds, and ones passed down generations never die. Asian communists seem to be long term haterz.
If he was Viet Cong he’d have tunneled under the fence, not hopped over it.