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Young American sentenced to six-years hard labour in North Korea

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A North Korean court has sentenced an American national to six-years hard labour for "hostile acts" against Pyongyang.

Matthew Miller, was arrested in April after arriving as a tourist.

Authorities claim he ripped up his visa and sought asylum in the country.

During the trial the court saw notes written that claim the 24-year-old became a fugitive because of his involvement with Wikileaks.

It is unclear how these notes came to be written or why.
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Another American citizen sentenced to an incredibly harsh sentence in the DPRK. I certainly hope we can bring them all home at some point through negotiations.
 
How would those negotiations go?

When did North Korea and tourism become synonymous?
 
Authorities claim he ripped up his visa and sought asylum in the country
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How fortunate this man is. He's about to have a rare ability to see all the marvels of socialism. I bet he begs not to leave in the end.
 
Visit Singapore instead. Get the message across.
 
TheDemSocialist said:
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Another American citizen sentenced to an incredibly harsh sentence in the DPRK. I certainly hope we can bring them all home at some point through negotiations.
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That suggest that traveling to a country with which the United States has been at war for 63 years is not recommended and breaking their laws when doing so is maybe not wise.

With the NK and the US faced off with huge armies, what could possibly possess anyone to go to North Korea?

I travel under the greatest passport in the world...and I wouldn't think of visiting Korea...either one
 
Fearandloathing said:
Kind of like sticking not just your hand in a hornet's nest but the whole arm and saying 'take this!"
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I don't travel to other countries.But I am sure the travel agency,state department or whoever informed that dumbass that he shouldn't go to that country.
 
cpwill said:
[/I][/FONT][/COLOR]How fortunate this man is. He's about to have a rare ability to see all the marvels of socialism. I bet he begs not to leave in the end.
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"Socialism"
 
North Korea is pretty much the worst place in the world to be. I cannot fathom why anyone would go there voluntarily. If there is any regime that needs to be toppled and people liberated, it is the ones who literally live in a dystopian fascist 1984 hellscape.
 
cpwill said:
[/I][/FONT][/COLOR]How fortunate this man is. He's about to have a rare ability to see all the marvels of socialism. I bet he begs not to leave in the end.
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North Korea "socialist"... and there I was thinking that I had heard everything.
 
Bodhisattva said:
North Korea "socialist"... and there I was thinking that I had heard everything.
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You been out of the news cycle for the past 65ish years?


:) You don't get to claim "it's not socialism" just because it doesn't work. Not working is one of the hallmarks of socialism.
 
cpwill said:
You been out of the news cycle for the past 65ish years?


:) You don't get to claim "it's not socialism" just because it doesn't work. Not working is one of the hallmarks of socialism.
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It isn't socialism because they don't even pretend to be socialist. It is a totalitarian regime.
 
Why do Americans go to North Korea, why even risk it?

BUT, I will say that I enjoyed Vice's documentary of the nation.
 
Bodhisattva said:
It isn't socialism because they don't even pretend to be socialist. It is a totalitarian regime.
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:lol: sure. And if history has taught us anything, it is that Socialist Paradises are never totalitarian dictatorships. :)
 
Van Basten said:
Why do Americans go to North Korea, why even risk it?
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:shrug: this one apparently thought he was escaping the brutal evil capitalist whatever-haveyou system over here, and asked for sanctuary over there. May he find it.
 
cpwill said:
:shrug: this one apparently thought he was escaping the brutal evil capitalist whatever-haveyou system over here, and asked for sanctuary over there. May he find it.
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I missed the asylum part.

What an idiot.
 
cpwill said:
:lol: sure. And if history has taught us anything, it is that Socialist Paradises are never totalitarian dictatorships. :)
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We both know better... but that isn't the point. The USSR and China at least tried to follow socialism... N. Korea? Not even close. They are nothing more than a military dictatorship that operates totalitarianism. The others were dictatorships of socialist systems.
 
Van Basten said:
Why do Americans go to North Korea, why even risk it?

BUT, I will say that I enjoyed Vice's documentary of the nation.
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It is an emerging culinary melting pot...
 
Bodhisattva said:
We both know better... but that isn't the point. The USSR and China at least tried to follow socialism... N. Korea? Not even close. They are nothing more than a military dictatorship that operates totalitarianism. The others were dictatorships of socialist systems.
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:shrug: Juche doesn't obviate socialism. Both the USSR and China were additionally ruled by the people who won the war, and if you think that the Soviet Union didn't practice their own brand of Songun, you haven't read up on how they allocated resources throughout their history. North Korea, sad little sick, twisted, brutal hole of a nightmare that it is, fully deserves the epithet of Socialism.
 
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