55,000 foreigners in US prisons as well (2011 data from a BBC article). Yet 4 US men held in DPRK is huge news. Admittedly, the whole coma thing seems very odd and i'm not sure we'll ever really know what has actually happened.
Unbelievable.
I bet every single one of those 55,000 can be accounted for. I bet they are all charged with crimes. I bet their embassies know their status. I bet they arent in permanent vegetative comas. I bet they haven't been tortured and put on a state TV show trial on absurd charges. I bet the 55,000 vs 4 discrepancy can be explained very quickly as the gap between number of Americans in "DPRK" and the number of foreigners in the US. I am fairly sure that dealing in absolute numbers 55,000 vs 4 without this context is entirely one dimensional and betrays your bias.
"Admittedly, the whole coma thing seems very odd"
Aye.
Very f***ing odd.
21 year old healthy American reels off paranoid Juche rhetoric is carted away and emerges a short time later in a coma which he doesnt wake from.
Just a little bit odd mind, I'm sure the nasty American deserved it though and he shouldnt have broken that ancient North Korean law of being from the wrong country at the wrong place at the wrong time. The bastard.
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