How problematic of a person do you have to be for North Korea, a nation that likes to keep people, to be like "I think you should leave."
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He was escaping assault charges and didn't "defect" for ideological reasons. Norks prolly think they will score more diplomatic points by handing him over back to the US.
I think their hands are kind of tied. He's not a valuable asset, he is a fuckup. He doesn't hold the same value as a random citizen tourist that didn't have the intention of defecting. He's not in a position to provide valuable intel. They either kick him out or treat him like a god and let him go home to tell everyone how awesome North Korea is. Punishing him only hurts their image.
I don't think it would hurt their image at all. They would be well within their rights to imprison him for the crossing. The US would do the same. I think they more want to exemplify US soldiers as incompetent fuckups by using him as an example.
There's a Lions led by Donkey's Podcast episode about cutting a tree in North Korea, and it ended in North Koreans taking turns chopping into pieces an US Officers body for hours. I don't think they care much about image.
There was also that NK guy who used sneak a kick in the balls to SK and US soldiers, that guy was famous. That episode was kind of hillarious.
Seriously, having a defected US soldier in North Korea is a huge PR and propaganda win, he must've been the dumbest pain in the ass to be not worth keeping.
I mean, he tried to defect to NK. We already know he's a dumbass.
It's basically a junta with a hereditary monarch, favored soldiers do well for themselves.
I guess he hoped his PR value would buy him some status.
There have been a few other US defectors to the DPRK, and iirc they weren't treated terribly. Though they did feel quite isolated culturally, I suppose you must anticipate that before you do something like that.
Next headline: US tells North Korea they don't want Travis King either
Korean civil war reignites as nobody wants to have Travis King
Like that "American" girl that joined ISIS and tried to come back but then the courts were like... actually we don't think you're an American citizen. Have fun in Syria!
I always wondered about the sanity of girls who joined ISIS. Do they realize all that they are giving up? And what exactly they are selling themselves into?
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No, he has to live in the DMZ.
His roommate is a landmine. Like Tom Hanks in Cast Away, he names it...
he names it…
Clay.
Clay Moore?
Motherfucker looks like a Githyanki. No wonder he has issues with violence.
He went from an undesirable discharge to Federal Court Marshall and at least a decade in federal prison as a US trader and coward.
If you're too crazy for North Korea to use as some sort of confirmation someone hates America, then you are too damn crazy. I hope he doesn't return worse than when he left. NK is now not a country you can't be extradited from.
will he come in a coffin like the last guy they 'let go'?
According to Reuters, he's in good health.
Bruce Lowrance was returned in good health in 2018.
But not Otto Warmbier
He wasn't the most recent returned, or returned in a coffin. Not sure that OP is referring to him.