No, it is indeed a bad idea. You have no rights in a police state and no protections. They send entire families to concentration camps just for the actions of one relative. One slip up and you are headed to a gulag. You don't need to actually steal a sign to get sent to a labor camp for it.
@RestoredYou have no rights anywhere but in America. Any "rights" you have in any foreign country are a gift that can be taken away at any time.
I have zero interest in going to NK. It's just one more bleak communist septic tank. Actually,one of the few surviving communist septic tanks. The USSR and China are no longer communist nations. Russia is free and China is full-on fascist,which is a huge step towards improvement over what they had before. At least now people are free to work where they want,live where they want,and even start businesses and keep most of their money as long as they try to keep a low profile and not piss off anyone important.
Even Cuba (Kuber,if you are a Kennedy) is teetering on the brink of freedom,and will dump communism like a hot rock the instant the last Castro brother dies.
Still,NK is a safe place to go as long as you remember it IS a police state,and you follow their freaking rules,just like you would if you were a guest anywhere else.
And one big rule everybody has everywhere is "Do NOT steal my property!"
Why is that so hard to remember,and why tolerate the whining of any adult that gets caught stealing in a foreign country and ends up facing THE SAME PUNISHMENTS AS THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE?
It's not like a 20 year old is too young to understand that stealing is wrong and you will be punished if caught,even if it's someone as wonderful as you doing it.
Also,I want to interject the fact that at 20 years old with a couple of years of college behind him this goober was STILL vandalizing and stealing public property. You can bet your life it wasn't the first time he stole anything,and chances are it wasn't even the first time he ever got caught stealing anything. This was just the first time he had to face the punishment.
I especially don't feel sorry for him if what I suspect is true,and he mouthed off at the NK prison guards and they beat the snot out of him. Removing someone THAT freaking clueless from America's gene pool is more of a public service than a crime. SOB had already been caught,and already been beaten lightly to get him to cry and condemn America at his trial,so by then he SHOULD have been aware this was no longer a game and there was nothing special about him.