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> North Korea can take you with whatever justification they feel like and return you as a vegetable. That’s most/all countries (or their embassies) you visit,
by Scoundreller 2y ago
> North Korea can take you with whatever justification they feel like and return you as a vegetable.
That’s most/all countries (or their embassies) you visit, no?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khashoggi https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khash...
- someoneontenet 2y agoI’m sure some countries are more willing to treat guests to the vegetable treatment than others.
- victorbjorklund 2y agoA big political enemy of the saudi family that been a pain in their ass (rightly so since they are an evil dictatorship) vs random student that just took a poster as a souvernir. Not the same thing. Anyone can be killed in North Korea. 99,99999999999% of people are not on the saudi familys enemy list.
- BizarreByte 2y ago> random student that just took a poster as a souvernir. Let's not mince words here, he stole government property in a country with some of the harshest laws on earth. Did he deserve to die for it? No, but it was an incredibly stupid thing to do.
- yongjik 2y agoOne might even argue that the stupidity began when he decided to visit NK.
- kennyloginz 2y agoHis fellow travelers say this was impossible, the “recording” was fake, and the timestamps are at a time when he wasn’t even in the hotel. Why would you assume n. Korea is being honest here?
- themaninthedark 2y agoI would not say that I would assume that North Korea is being honest but what makes you think that his fellow travelers are being honest either?
- kennyloginz 2y agoHis fellow travelers were from many different countries
- Scoundreller 2y agoyeah for sure, because otherwise NK has fantastic relations with USA!
- damontal 2y agoNice victim blaming.
- BizarreByte 2y agoIt's no more victim blaming than being honest about what happens to people who visit Singapore with pot.
- pcwalton 2y agoI don't think it really makes sense to talk about "laws" for places like North Korea, as it's not a rule of law state.
- shiroiushi 2y agoPerhaps, but Saudi Arabia is pretty close to North Korea as far as my desire to ever visit the place. Both of them are extremely unappealing.
- rubytubido 2y ago> assassination by western trade partner VS assassination by isolated country Not the same thing!!!
- Etherlord87 2y agoIs an airplane the same thing as a car? After all, they both have wheels.
- andy81 2y agoOther countries have a larger denominator to reduce the proportion of visits vs arbitrary detention and torture.
- nkrisc 2y agoI feel a lot better about my chances in pretty much any other country than NK.