North Korea sentences American Matthew Miller to 6 years of hard labor

[GBCW 397]

By Anna Fifield September 14

TOKYO — North Korea has sentenced Matthew Miller to six years of hard labor for committing “hostile acts,” after the American reportedly ripped up his tourist visa upon arrival at the Pyongyang airport in April.

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Initial reports said that when he arrived April 10 in Pyongyang, he tore his tourist visa and shouted that he wanted asylum. “He came to the DPRK after choosing it as a shelter,” KCNA reported.

In an interview with CNN this month, during which Miller was monitored by North Korean officials, he said he “prepared to violate the law of DPRK before coming here, and I deliberately committed my crime.”

But during Sunday’s trial, Miller said he tore up his tourist visa at the Pyongyang airport because he had the “wild ambition” of experiencing prison life in North Korea so that he could write about human rights in the country, reported the Associated Press, which was allowed to attend the trial.

The asylum stunt was just a trick by Miller to get himself into a jail, the prosecution said. It also said that he falsely claimed to have secret information about the U.S. military in South Korea on his iPad and iPod, AP reported.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/north-korea-sentences-american-matthew-miller-to-6-years-of-hard-labor/2014/09/14/aa91ac40-3c05-11e4-b03f-de718edeb92f_story.html

[Merrytooth 5,748]

Why should US waste its time to save this dumb twit.

[GBCW 397]

Because he's a white guy from a privileged economic background and in this country we give people like that an endless supply of get out of jail free cards.

[Dan and Judy 614]

He's a dumb cluck

[Karee 4,190]

Looks to me like he got his wish. He's now a resident of North Korea.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

He sounds like one of the libertarian idiots on this board.

[GandD 5,966]

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