US student is sentenced to 15 years hard labor in North Korea for trying to steal a political banner

As if none of you have ever done something stupid when you were young and dumb. This is fucking ridiculous, the kid is basically losing 15 years of his life for doing something on a comparable level of dumb that we’ve all done before.

Race was never even the topic here, and yet it has been forcingly brought up.

Pathetic, really.

Sure I did, back when I were a kid which is not at the age of 21. This is a mentality issue and not an age issue.

Not in north korea tho.

They play by different rules get fuckin over it LMFAO

We jail people over buying or possessing steroids or marijuana

They send you to the gulag for stealing posters

IT JUST BE LIKE THAT SOMETIMES

Sorry never felt the need to steal anything in my life. :coffee:

No sympathy, you do the crime and get the time.

When you travel to other countries you follow their customs not your warped American view of what they should be.

North Korea being a shithole doesn’t excuse this fool from the crime he committed. The punishment is extreme to “US” that’s how they handle it.

And you are not a “kid” at 21 gtfo

15 years just for being REALLY dumb.

There’s something to be said about your mentality for supporting that shit.

So quick to make a spectacle out of someone’s soul-crushing situation in your artificial position of power. No attempt to place yourself in his shoes.

Not unlike anyone who abuses their power really, be it the woman beater, the overzealous police officer, or even a slave owner.

You guys will grasp at anything to feel falsely superior. Pathetic

I did dumb shit when i was younger. I was arrested at 17 and did the time (16 hours of community service for stealing dvds from a seven-eleven across from my high school). I was caught in my crime and punished according to the law of the country.

Had i done that in north korea i wouldve been sent to the gulag too probably. So gtfo with your “put urself in HIS SHOES!” First off them shits dirty secondly its a different punishment in a different area. It is what it is just because it tickles ur butthole doesnt make it wrong

Boo freaking hoo!

He broke the law in a dictatorship ruled by someone who’s tried to have his uncle executed, even worse he willingly traveled to a dictatorship ruled by someone who’s tried to have his uncle executed.

Dude can hold that L and bow in shame for his stupidity. If he practice that bow to reach the same level as a Japanese one they might even release him a few months earlier.

Yeah his bow had all the feeling but none of the style

I literally have no idea what you’re talking about. I’m sure speaking in coherent sentences is difficult for you, but can you at least try to give the rest of us some clue into what you are trying to say

He didn’t get 15 years for being stupid…
He got 15 years hard labor for stealing propoganda from a hotel…in one of the WORST countries to do it.

I did dumb stuff as a kid…hell I did dumb shit when I was 21.
I still got caught and punished for it.
This guy happened to do it…in one of the WORST countries.

So yeah…fuck that “put myself in his shoes”.
Not about that life.

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I didn’t because I had something in my life called good parenting… which consisted of a belt.

I am not going to feel bad for a 21 year old that doesn’t understand the difference from right and wrong. Especially fucking thief.

This dude has no reading comprehension.

Complaining about “SJWs and whatever blah blah” is a step away from being one of those dumbasses that complains about not being able to say the N-word anymore. Let me know if I have to dumb it down for you further.

I’m sure in your mind that is a totally logical, but for those of us in the real world you’re still not making any sense

If this was a different country I would agree with you but this is NORTH KOREA. Although, as i said, this guy must be a complete jackass back home who probably had a hobby of doing some top tier douchebag shit to random people in his area to be this insane (or completely stupid) to this over there. The only thing that can top a jack ass trying to punk North Korea is a jackass trying to punk the Isis in their own land.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

I have traveled to several middle eastern countries including Saudi Arabia, and I made damn sure not to break any laws while I was there. Most countries like tourists if you can go there and not be act like a spoiled child. You are projecting what you as a Westerner consider fair onto a country with a completely different values and mores. This guy decided to break laws in a country with a dictator that fed his own Uncle to hungry dogs, and I don’t feel sorry for him at all.

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Say that shit one more time for the people in the back…

One of the biggest truthism ever dropped on SRK.

If only they added North Korea to Wu Tang’s bubble at the school in Virginia… Maybe he would be ok… maybe

I’m not projecting anything onto anyone. There is right and wrong, and sentencing someone to 15 years of hard labor for stealing a flag is wrong, regardless of what their “culture” says. If you can’t see that then there isn’t much for us to talk about