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Critical support of North Korea! Defend the DPRK's PEOPLE'S propaganda posters!
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this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2026
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He read a prepared confession that said he planned to steal the poster for a Methodist church and a secret society, both of whom are allied with the CIA. By the way, he was Jewish. So the story is that a Jewish kid is working for a Methodist church to help the CIA steal a poster from a North Korean hotel. Yeah.
He got released early, though. He'd only been imprisoned for 17 months when they sent him back in a vegetative state. His parents decided it would be better to euthanise him by disconnecting his feeding tube.
What the fuck...
An attendant told his tour group that he wouldn't be able to fly back with them because he was sick and had to be taken to the hospital. Then he appears on TV for the trial, sobbing and reading the statement. Then the world hears nothing for a year. Donald Trump wins the 2016 election, and the Trump administration says Trump secured Otto's release. Otto is flown back to America in a coma. He can breathe and blink, can't do anything else on his own. No response to stimuli.
The North Korean doctors say he caught a case of botulism from some bad food and took a sleeping pill, and he's been like that since a month after the conviction. Over a year. They share two MRI scans, they say one is recent and one's a year old. The American doctors look at him. They say he's got serious brain damage caused by lack of oxygen to the brain, consistent with a cardiopulmonary event. No signs of physical trauma, no healed skull fractures. But also no signs of botulism. Some doctors say it's suspicious, others say there wouldn't be signs after this long. He's in remarkably good shape for someone who's been in a coma for a year. Good muscle mass for the circumstances, excellent skin condition. The parents are told all of this and consulted. The parents say pull the plug.
The parents sue North Korea for wrongful death. North Korea does not send a representative to the trial, so the parents win by default. Judge awards them 500 million and sends the bill to North Korea. North Korea send it back, unpaid. The parents get their money from the sale of a North Korean cargo ship that America seized for smuggling, and from a North Korean bank. They use the money to give a North Korean defector a scholarship.
Young Pioneers, the tourism company that sold Otto the holiday, no longer takes American tourists to North Korea, but is happy to take people from other countries. You can go buy a tour on their website and get drunk in Pyongyang.
Does not sound like the most charming destination for my next vacation.
Let's wait for another two years and see how everything else around this shithole develops.
Huh, people really did forget. Ignorance is a bliss.
The more ridiculous the statement is the more easily it can be defended.
If they had just said, rip a poster off the wall you get the Guillotine, that would be harder to defend than saying that, he worked for the "super CIA" and had an evil plan to destroy the county, beginning with that poster ...
That's nice
Oh.
they claimed it was from a suicide attempt, but didn’t explain why his teeth had been knocked out and put back wrong