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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/no ... story.html

So, North Korea sentenced a kid to 15 years hard labor for trying to steal a propaganda sign. Yeah, it's harsh. Yeah, it's way overboard. Yeah, it's condemned by the world at large. Yeah, it's a tragedy.

But, North Korea is a dick. We all know that. Anyone who goes there HAS know that they could be accused of a crime for any reason, true or false. Why do we (society, families of those people, etc.) act surprised or think it's anything other than business-as-usual?

they are punishing him not for anything he did or didn't do, they are punishing him so that the united states will negotiate for his release and give them like a f**k of grain, even while they ratchet up their nuclear testing and their saber rattling

I'm having a hard time feeling sympathy for Americans who get screwed over in North Korea. There is a simple method to avoid getting eaten by the troll, kids: Stay out from under the f**k bridge!

You guys are pathetic. I guess our brave men and women who were killed, injured, or taken prisoner in Iraq and Afghanistan - not the mention Nam before that - don't deserve our sympathy because they shouldn't have been there. That's another discussion for another time. But any time an American falls into the clutches of a foreign tyrant, I know who I stand with.

LOL.

Anyway, on the one hand, this is extreme, even for dick-ish North Korea.

On the other hand, who the f*** goes to North Korea on their own volition? And then attempts to pull off a frat prank? Seriously?

What's next? Taking a booze trolley into ISIS-held territory? That should end well.

Anyway, he'll get released. Richardson will get him out. Then he'll be on the TODAY show, count on it.

I'm totally with you on this.

Don't blame NK that some of our college kids are idiots.