American citizen Matthew Miller, detained earlier this year by North Korea’s government while on a tourist visa, has given a bizarre interview to NK News detailing his reasons for going, and the nature of his detention.
“I went to North Korea to deliver this notebook and to be detained,” Miller claimed, with the notebook aiming to give them a pretext for a longer detention by portraying him as something of a spy.
Yet Miller insists his visit was entirely tourism, and that he was “prepared for torture” when he went to the nation and tried to claim “political asylum,” and didn’t want the US to help secure his release.
North Korea sentenced Miller to six years hard labor back in September, but he was released to the US this month. Despite that, Miller says he considers that he “achieved my goals” as a tourist, though he did feel somewhat guilty in getting himself detained.
Miller says the North Korean officials were far nicer than he anticipated, and instead of locking him up and throwing away the key, which was apparently his plan, he was “killed with kindness” and the North Korean government seemed eager to just be rid of him, trying to expel him before finally agreeing to arrest him.
The fact that he went to North Korea on this bizarre whim and went to such great lengths to get arrested underscores the dangers in US officials making every such arrest a huge diplomatic scandal, as North Korea seemed reluctant to arrest the man at all, and apparently never bought his own claims to be a hacker/spy.
Dennis Rodman has my permission to kick this guy's ass.
“detailing his reasons for going”
Yes, please do state at least one of his reasons? For you list the physical actions he took to fulfill his reasoning, but not one reason did you give for why he did what he did.
Otherwise, readers may get the impression that you are doing what all of mainstream media strives to accomplish, namely burn up our emotional capital so that we back away from the issue, so that we allow the corporate rich to do as they please with the issue.
RTFL… "read the f'ing link".
Please.
Before you post.
Next time.
Yes, as Mark below says, the link is what is being spotlighted in this brief piece.
As for your bizarre comment about "we allow the corporate rich to do as they please with the issue", that is truly some kind of knee jerk mental spasm you have (perhaps your brain is located near your knees.) Why would "corporate rich" have any motive or intention in spinning this nutcase's actions or explanations. Anyone wanting to voluntarily reside in a N. Korean gulag is hardly going to be anyone's object of emotional manipulation. Crazy is as crazy does.
Sometimes a nutcase is just a nutcase…
NK in BO's new axis of evil???
G20 summit: Barack Obama turns up the heat
In a speech on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Brisbane, Mr Obama also had strong words for potential aggressor states such as China, Russia and North Korea, warning them never to "question our resolve or our commitments to our allies" and that the "rule of force must give way to the rule of law"…
After announcing the "pivot" to the Asia-Pacific region in the Australian Parliament three years ago, there was considerable interest in Canberra on how that was now being perceived in the White House. Mr Obama said it remained the priority.
"Day in, day out, steadily, deliberately, we will continue to deepen our engagement using every element of our power," he said. http://www.theage.com.au/queensland/brisbane-g20/…
To — The rich poster who calls himself “Mark-muggles”
Love your wealth you surely do, thinking that in having it comes more freedom and glory from it. But, not so, quite the reverse, for it destroys all your options that are not in the best interest of protecting and expanding wealth.
For where is the glory when the vast majority of society despises you for the stupidity of it, the hunger dying if a billion souls because of the greed in it?