I don't know that any justification is needed? He entered a foreign country, that his nation has a many decades history of being hostile towards, and snuck into an area he shouldn't have been in to steal a government poster from. The US has leveled the DPRK in the past, committed war crimes and atrocities during their invasion, and continues to impose sanctions and demonize it to the rest of the world, all because they checks notes try to exist outside of capitalism. It's been ruled that there were no signs of torture and even after his incident (whether medical issue or self inflicted) he received good medical care the entire time he was there.
Honestly, he's a typical, white american so of course his case will forever be a "tragedy" and the fault of the evil North Koreans!!, meanwhile the history between the countries and the facts of the situation will forever be obfuscated or just straight up called "obvious North Korean lies" whenever this comes up
Looked into it more, apparently his parents decided to pull the plug almost immediately after he arrived "He died six days later in the United States, after his parents decided to end the life support that was sustaining his vegetative state.” ( NYT )
I don't know that any justification is needed? He entered a foreign country, that his nation has a many decades history of being hostile towards, and snuck into an area he shouldn't have been in to steal a government poster from. The US has leveled the DPRK in the past, committed war crimes and atrocities during their invasion, and continues to impose sanctions and demonize it to the rest of the world, all because they checks notes try to exist outside of capitalism. It's been ruled that there were no signs of torture and even after his incident (whether medical issue or self inflicted) he received good medical care the entire time he was there.
Honestly, he's a typical, white american so of course his case will forever be a "tragedy" and the fault of the evil North Koreans!!, meanwhile the history between the countries and the facts of the situation will forever be obfuscated or just straight up called "obvious North Korean lies" whenever this comes up
Looked into it more, apparently his parents decided to pull the plug almost immediately after he arrived "He died six days later in the United States, after his parents decided to end the life support that was sustaining his vegetative state.” ( NYT )