A student traveling as a tourist in North Korea has been arrested. The US citizen and student at the University of Virginia is being detained for inciting “hostile acts.” Becca Frucht, Brett Erlich (Pop Trigger), and Hasan Piker (Pop Trigger) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
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“North Korean authorities have detained a U.S. student, accusing him of attempting to undermine the state, the secretive nation’s state-run Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Friday morning.
The man was identified by KCNA as University of Virginia student Warmbier Otto Frederick (likely Otto Frederick Warmbier, as the agency often lists English language surnames first, according to the Associated Press), and was said to have been “arrested while perpetrating a hostile act against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.”
The report said Warmbier had entered the country “under the guise” of tourism with the “purpose of breaking down the foundation of the single-minded unity of the Korean people,” and was operating “under the connivance” of the U.S. government.”
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i don t get it.
why would anyone want to go as tourist to north korea.
thats insane by itself
if he gets arrested and goes to a north korean concentration camp he deserves it.
he could have gone to a nice country like syria as tourist but no he has to go to north korea.
and propably said something utterly dumb
like : i got the right to free speech.
or insisted to go down a street that was forbidden
with the argument : hey i can go where i want
i think that if you go as a tourist into the most hardcore dictatorship in the world…
you want to be arrested