Wow, @sneakypete, did you really say that?
@Sanguine Yes,I did. I made my first visit to a foreign country when I was 18 years old,and was no smarter than any of the other 18 year old idiots there with me in the army.
One thing I didn't have to learn to avoid was being arrested for stealing,though. I knew to not steal by the time I started Elementary School. My mother didn't play,and she laid some some pretty basic rules as soon as I was old enough to understand them. One was,"You do NOT steal!",so I didn't.
Since this yahoo was 20 years old with a couple of years of college behind him and he was caught on camera stealing a poster off a wall in a hotel,I HAVE to think that wasn't the first thing he had stolen. It seems obvious it was the first thing he had stolen he had to face the music over,though
No,he didn't deserve to die for stealing from the state. Nor did he deserve to die for mouthing off to the NK prison guards,which seems to be the likely reason he achieved "instant vegetable state".
Him deserving or NOT deserving it has nothing to do with the fact that is what he got,and IF HE HAD NOT BEEN CAUGHT STEALING STATE PROPERTY FROM THE POLICE STATE HE WOULD BE SAFE AT HOME NOW,STEALING FROM HIS NEIGHBORS.
AND....,You can bet your bippy the EXACT same things would have happened to a citizen of NK if they had done the same things,so from the POV of the NK police state,they did nothing wrong or unusual.
If you don't want to take the ride,don't buy the ticket.