How it is a thoughtcrime if he literally traveled to North Korea to help them? It's not required that this help is useful. Plenty of spies transferred informat

How it is a thoughtcrime if he literally traveled to North Korea to help them? It's not required that this help is useful. Plenty of spies transferred information that was already known by the recipient country, fake information, or even information that was deliberately passed to them by counterintelligence - it's still espionage.