• Waterpumpee@lemmus.org
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    4 months ago

    In the defense of the North Korea outrage, they lobotomised the kid and sent the dying body back to US.

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        4 months ago

        It’s bizarre to see somebody believe that not only will a former Olympic athlete be sentenced for touching paint but to honestly believe he could be beaten into brain damage and die from it.

        Chances are the guy walks away scot free and then sues the US Government.

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      4 months ago

      Pretty sure there were missing teeth.

      Edit: not Otto. Might have been another prisoner. Or I’m confusing it with World War Z and how North Korea solved the zombie crisis by pulling everyone’s teeth.

      Edit edit: ok, he’s the one I read about but these details aren’t in wikipedia and may be suspect.

      They said Otto was deaf, blind, jerking uncontrollably and making “inhuman” sounds when they met him on a plane.

      His teeth also looked like they had been rearranged with pliers, his father said.

      https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/he-totally-deformed-otto-warmbiers-11242029

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        4 months ago

        He wasn’t literally surgically lobotomized no - but he did have extremely severe neurological damage from an unknown source which put him in a vegetative state that he never regained consciousness from. If it was done by DPRK intentionally or not isn’t known, but he did suffer those injuries during his time imprisoned under their supervision, and generally it’s held that harm to a prisoner is the fault of the captor.

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          4 months ago

          Yes, that’s not “North Korea lobotomising him”. Hence fake news. A lobotomy cuts off the front of the brain

          It would be the first time North Korea has harmed an American in this context and it’s pretty likely to be unintentional if they wanted to trade prisoners

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            4 months ago

            What a tedious semantic argument. An inaccurate use of a term in an informal setting that nonetheless quite accurately describes the symptoms he experienced, is not fake news - it’s not even news, it’s an internet comment. It’s been corrected now.

            it’s pretty likely to be unintentional

            It’s generally unintentional to beat someone and have them wind up in a vegetative state.

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              4 months ago

              See the other comment from someone else, they were not beaten at all and the one anonymous report that he was appears to be fabricated