15-Years Hard Labour In A North Korean Gulag For Stealing A Political Banner.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3494513/American-student-detained-North-Korea-sentenced-15-years-hard-labor-trying-steal-political-banner.html

According to some of the Daily Mail's comments this student is shown very little sympathy, do you agree with them?

[Peter Pedant]

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no AOG turn your irony radar on ( is the klaxon going ? ) this is an example of the erm famous undecidable sentences.

on the same line of 'All Cretans are liars' said the famous Cretan Epimenes

and features in Chap 1 of all books on computablity and logic
such as Boolos and Jeffreys - which must be a seller as it is up to the fifth edition ....

well done Gro gro - I noticed marked and inwardly admired

[albaqwerty]

from what I've read (can't find a link yet) he went into a staff only area and nicked a pro-NK flag. Personally, I'd reckon they'd be glad to let a NK flag out the country to 'flag' up their wonderful regime

[ToraToraTora]

yes Ratter but as this appears to be some sort of church inspired escapade we can assume that his god agrees with the sentence or he'd have used some of his omnipotence to help the lad out.

[vulcan42]

He stole the "trophy" after his church asked him to, so they could put it on the church wall. He obviously feared them more than the North Koreans- until he was caught of course.

[Peter Pedant]

blimey - there is dim and dimmer