The DPRK maintains that they will allow or at least consider all cases of defection from capitalist and imperialist countries and offer asylum, though that is only on paper. I was really hoping they would offer Travis King asylum or at least allow him to move to China or Russia. My heart is broken for the poor guy, even if he made racist comments. The U.S. military will probably use him as a fleshlight or kill him.
It's tough but it kind of makes sense they'd not allow him in if he wasn't treating Koreans well. South Koreans are Koreans just as much as North Koreans. And any complications resulting in changing countries stemming from his existing legal troubles may not have been worth dealing with. In effect he may have been simply using DPRK as a means to escape justice instead of as a means to more prosperous life.
The DPRK maintains that they will allow or at least consider all cases of defection from capitalist and imperialist countries and offer asylum, though that is only on paper. I was really hoping they would offer Travis King asylum or at least allow him to move to China or Russia. My heart is broken for the poor guy, even if he made racist comments. The U.S. military will probably use him as a fleshlight or kill him.
It's tough but it kind of makes sense they'd not allow him in if he wasn't treating Koreans well. South Koreans are Koreans just as much as North Koreans. And any complications resulting in changing countries stemming from his existing legal troubles may not have been worth dealing with. In effect he may have been simply using DPRK as a means to escape justice instead of as a means to more prosperous life.
It will be interesting to see what happens.
That makes complete sense. I doubt that legal complications would matter much though.
Still, I think it would have been nice if the DPRK offered an olive branch and took him in. I understand why they didn't, but it still sucks.