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This stupidity is equal to bringing drugs to Singapore or trying to collar a bear cub in front of bear mom in the middle of wilderness.

You could have fun or lose your life. Make a call.

If adult cannot make a judgement call simple enough he becomes a learning statistics for others.

On the other side i think NK will keep him in reasonable conditions to leverage the situation eventually returning him back.




It's not comparable at all. Posters on the street are seen as being disposable in most parts of the world, and it's hard to imagine being arrested for, say, pulling down an Obama campaign poster and taking it home. Drug trafficking and hunting large predators are pretty much illegal everywhere, on the other hand.


> it's hard to imagine being arrested for, say, pulling down an Obama campaign poster and taking it home

It's actually funny you mention campaign posters specifically - because yes, you can get in very serious legal trouble for taking down campaign signs in certain states.

Source: I know people who took down opposing campaign signs for the opposing candidate. Fun times were not had, except perhaps by the lawyers.


Oh, that's a good point. I was just imagining a fan taking a poster home for personal use, but that sort of thing could easily fall under campaign laws.


Except that "North Korea" isn't "most part of the world". Even a basic five-minute readout on any travel wiki would tell you that. This is a country that will send your whole family to slave labour if you remotely suggest something that might be regarded as against their supreme leader.


Millions of young adults do stupider things every day, and relatively few end in tragedy.


Sure, the world isn't fair. Lots of people drive drunk and nothing bad happens.

Still, the US shouldn't allow NK to have extra leverage because of this.




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