Otto Warmbier
I'm sorry for what happened to him, but more importantly, I hope it will teach others a lesson. US students really shouldn't visit North Korea for their amusement. And his father is such a douche; it almost makes it impossible to sympathize with him despite his terrible loss.
Some new details into the final days of Otto Warbier not made public before have been revealed by his parents. His parents report the boy's teeth "looked like they had been rearranged with pliers" upon his return to the US in an anguished, unresponsive state. He also had a wound on his foot that appeared to have been allowed to fester untreated for many months. The obvious conclusion is that they tortured the fuck out of this kid. I understand his parents have been through hell and are devastated, but for them to have refused an autopsy on the corpse was a bit unfortunate and somewhat unreasonable. Any professional medical insight into what their son endured during his horrendous ordeal should be exposed, and if by some miracle he wasn't tortured nearly beyond recognition and died of (somewhat) less sinister reasons, that should come to light too.
The US finally and sensibly banned Americans from going to NK, where they would only be more potential pawns and bargaining chips for the regime when the inevitable military clash kicks off, which seems unavoidable at this point. The North is claiming that Trump "has declared war", and that they therefore have the right to shoot down US airplanes even if they are not over NK territory. Assuming NK has some advanced Russian or Chinese anti-aircraft missile systems, this is a genuine threat. A shot down US plane would surely lead to serious military response strikes from the US, resulting in all out war.
I didn't get this post until I saw the interviews the parents have been doing lately (yesterday). I wouldn't go so far as to call the father "a douche", but noticeably bizarre behavior/responses on his part during the interviews, even taking into consideration his terrible circumstances. His responses weren't odd in an emotional sense, but just overall strange.Alex wrote:I'm sorry for what happened to him, but more importantly, I hope it will teach others a lesson. US students really shouldn't visit North Korea for their amusement. And his father is such a douche; it almost makes it impossible to sympathize with him despite his terrible loss.
The US finally and sensibly banned Americans from going to NK, where they would only be more potential pawns and bargaining chips for the regime when the inevitable military clash kicks off, which seems unavoidable at this point. The North is claiming that Trump "has declared war", and that they therefore have the right to shoot down US airplanes even if they are not over NK territory. Assuming NK has some advanced Russian or Chinese anti-aircraft missile systems, this is a genuine threat. A shot down US plane would surely lead to serious military response strikes from the US, resulting in all out war.
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