Quote:Californian Matthew Miller, who was detained in April in North Korea, was sentenced Sunday to six years with labor on charges of entering the country illegally and trying to commit an act of espionage, according to KCNA, the official North Korean news agency.
KCNA said Miller, 24, committed acts hostile to North Korea while entering the country "under the guise of a tourist." After a brief session, the country's Supreme Court denied Miller any appeal.
the story : kid is a caviar communist, hallucinating from his american ivory tower has a neurotic meltdown, decides to travel to Piongyang, tore his visa at the airport while shouting north korea is his new shelter, falsely claiming to have secret information about the US military in South Korea on his iPad and iPod.
the response : six years of slave labour, working 8 hours per day, 6 days a week, good ol gulag
Part of me wants to let out a Nelson "HA-HA!" and part of me feels sorry for his dumb ass because I've read about the horrors that go on in their prison camps.
(09-15-2014 01:34 PM)TheWastelander Wrote: Part of me wants to let out a Nelson "HA-HA!" and part of me feels sorry for his dumb ass because I've read about the horrors that go on in their prison camps.
Is this beta?
not much, just look at the other dudes detained there
no one is gonna give a shit about them, if north korea had captured a pretty white girl who knows
Quote:Another American who is already serving a 15-year sentence in a labour camp, the 46-year-old Christian missionary Kenneth Bae, was also granted an interview with CNN, in which he described his failing health.
"I have been going back and forth from hospital to the labour camp for the last year and a half," he said, adding that he was working eight hours a day for six days a week at the camp.
Mr Bae is accused by North Korea of trying to evangelise inside North Korea. He said he is suffering from diabetes, back aches and high blood pressure. The US State department has called for Mr Bae to be released on humanitarian grounds.
i dont know what kind of propaganda this boy was being fed, maybe he watched too much michael moore bullshit and tought what a wonderful experience the travel was gonna be, playing silly espionage games with the most fucked up people in the wolrd
i bet he showed up at the airport flashing his ipod without having any knowledge of how the DPRK society works and what tourists are supposed to do there
from what i saw in this documentary
tourist are forbidden to talk or interact with locals, social disruption/agitation of any kind from foreigners is not accepted , check out the mark at 32:38, how the fucked up travel guide is proud of harassing curious tourists, jealously is the most common feeling there.
Its a really fake and boring place to live, official history is pure mithology of how the great leader descended from the skies, a whole society without any identity
poor kid just went bonkers, initially he rips his visa asking for asylum in N. Korea then :
Quote:"My situation is very urgent," Miller told CNN. "That very soon, I'm going to trial and I will directly be sent to prison. I think this interview is my final chance to push the American government into helping me."
(09-15-2014 01:20 PM)Mike5055 Wrote: He won't survive.
Nah, he will. He's a high profile political prisoner who has value as a bargaining chip; he will get much better treatment than the native prisoners, which is not to say he'll be having a vacation.
On the bright side, he's got a shot at the coveted North Korean flag
'caviar communist' thats a new one to me, and I good one! This guy made his own hard, dirty, lice ridden bed and will now sleep on it for 6 years. This is like the political version of 'into the wild'
This guy is TOAST as soon as he crosses the wire. Even in the gulags, Americans are "filthy imperialist pigs".
They'd kill him just to buy rep points from the guards.
If he wanted a NK flag, that can only be gained from a refugee living in the South. That's as close as close gets. Now if their leader started up a sex tourism trade biz, that would get very interesting indeed. I would suspect plenty of thirsty suckers getting shackled up over a cheap lay gone wrong somehow by inadvertently breaking one of their other laws.
That black turtleneck is such a nice touch for a caviar communist. I wonder if they did that or they made him wear his own clothes?
Yeah heard about this story. At least the people smuggling bibles and doing things like that though stupid are doing something they believe in and standing up for something, this kid seems like he's just playing games being an idiot. I was reading something about how North Korea kinda uses situations like this to get some us official to go over tehre and try to talk about other issues but with all else going on in the world they said thats not gonna happen. Sonds like this kid was an idiot, made a stupid decision and will now pay the price.
Lisa Ling was the last idiot "VIP" to get caught, and had all her Democrat buddies making calls to Biden, Clinton, and Obama get her ass outta there. After they burned all those cards, I cannot see anyone else getting outta there easily again. If this kid had any "Snowflake Syndrome" in him that made him think he could possibly get out if it went bad, it will be beaten out of him. Re-education Through Labor is what Mao Zedong called it. He is about to find out why. If he doesn't break (big fucking if) he might be able to learn Korean and ask "Fearless Leader" if he could please stay and maybe he might let him...
No one really knows what exactly happened to him other than the fact he went to North Korea. I doubt the Norks would lie about him tearing up his visa and detain him, though.
If he was/is a commie sympathizer than he should rot.
I don't get why people want to go to that shithole given the risks involved. We're talking about a country that used to kidnap Japanese citizens from Japanese territory and force them to live and work there.