Should the U.S. Government Allow Latest American Detainee to Rot in North Korea?
Does everyone remember the American idiot who tried to swim to North Korea a few months ago? Well he’s back and this time he made into North Korea via China:
SEOUL (Reuters) – A U.S. citizen who said he illegally entered North Korea held a press conference in Pyongyang on Sunday to deliver a 4,000-word statement denouncing U.S. domestic and foreign policy, CNN said.
CNN said the man identified himself as Arutro Pierre Martinez, 29, from the U.S. border town of El Paso. His mother told CNN her son was bipolar, and had previously tried to enter North Korea from the South Korean side.
“He is very smart and he got the court to let him out and instead of coming home to us he bought a ticket and left for China,” the television news channel quoted Patricia Eugenia Martinez as saying. (Reuters via reader tip)
You can read more at the link, but this guy went to North Korea two days after the other two Americans were released. This just shows that the U.S. government negotiating for the release of these individuals is just encouraging others idiots and the mentally ill to go to North Korea as well.
These people need to be treated like the past military defectors that were allowed to rot in North Korea. The U.S. Government needs to let Martinez rot there as well.
Depending on how severe and obvious his mental illness is, the NK’s won’t be able to claim he came as a spy or to try to bring subversion into the country. He may soon turn out to be much more of a burden than of value to them and I wouldn’t surprised if they deported him without any demands.
Hmm if I were an aide to POTUS how would I advise him in a way that’s best for the country? Maybe this?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo……………………………………………………………………
This proves it’s very difficult for Americans to live in America, and lot of them want to immigrate elsewhere.
Similiar to how Koreans are leaving, and have left Korea, isn’t it Tom?
If only Tbone had the courage of his convictions to do the same thing. Alas, he is far too much of a big mouth to ever actually do anything…
Come on, Tbone! I dare you! I Double Dare You! I Double Diick Down Double Dog Dare You! You Ain’t Got Hair One On Your Balls To Do Something Like This!
Not only let this guy rot, but all of these so-called ISIS captives who voluntarily placed their selves in harms way, should be left to their own devices also…why are we wasting U.S. Taxpayer $$$, putting American service members lives at risk, & killing innocents through collateral damage, thus creating even more enemies? If the hostage/captive is not there on official government business, then the government needs to stay out of it. If the person is there in connection with a private entity, then that entity needs to fork over the $$$ & hire someone to get THEIR employee out…
I think JoeC is right and eventually the Norks will release this guy after they use up what little propaganda advantage this gives them. I think even the Norks know that the US government is not going to offer them anything serious in return for a someone with possible mental problems. Thus there really is nothing in it for them to keep this guy for very long.
What I cannot undrtstand is why Arturo Pierre Martinez swam the river into North Korea when cabbage picking season is already over.
North Korea should deport this illegal American immigrant.
Illegal American immigrants are flooding into North Korea. There has to be a barbed wire to keep these wetback illegals out.
Since Martinez is (now) seeking asylum in Venezuela, he should of just flew there instead, lol
“Come on, Tbone! I dare you…To Do Something Like This!”
Since I’m nowhere near NE Asia what else “like this” would you double dare me to do? Nonetheless, you missed the boat MTBdumberRider, I used to live in Korea but never did anything “like this” but why would you want me to, so that your “dumber” group would get a kick out of it? Sadly, if I did you wouldn’t ever know since the media wouldn’t use or say “tbonetylr” did it “like this.” You really do belong in the “dumber” group with Chickenhead etc…
Martinez went from El Paso to China to prove a point. You coulddo the same,if you had any balls. I think you’re just gutless.
Bwwk, bwwk, BWWK!
“if I did you wouldn’t ever know since the media wouldn’t use or say “tbonetylr””
I bet if the media reported you were detained in North Korea, GI Korea would suspend his request that I don’t post identifying information.
Come and get me then you little chickenheadedfakeshytehacker. But really, you & your “dumber group”/Gi Korea should stop fantasizing about me.
I don’t have to come and get you, Tbone.
You have been getting yourself your whole life.
Yep, sounds like Tbone is just making excuses. If he really was a Social Justice Warrior, he would go to North Korea and tell Uncle Jong Un about how Americans and South Koreans were both mean to him. How he got canned from his job as an English teacher in South Korea, and how the police oppressed his right to express himself in a public restroom in the States.
Come on, Tbone! If a Beaner from El Paso can pull that off, what prevents a well educated black man from doing him one better? Do it, or we’ll know you are nothing but bluster.
Bwwk, BWWK!
He probably wants a book deal, like Laura Ling and Euna Lee received.