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Re:USS Pueblo by ApolloFortyNine on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @03:12PM (#21577754)
Not that I condone traveling to North Korea, but Otto is almost definitely the example of "don't do something dumb" the op was thinking of.

>The tour group celebrated New Year's Eve by carousing in Pyongyang's Kim Il-sung Square before returning to their accommodations at the Yanggakdo International Hotel, where they continued drinking alcohol. Early in the morning of New Year's Day, Warmbier allegedly tried to steal a propaganda poster from a staff-only area of the hotel.

He stole a poster. [1] In North Korea. It was young and stupid and he shouldn't died for it, but he did break a law while he was over there.

[1] https://globalnews.ca/video/3544639/video-appearing-to-show-...

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Re:USS Pueblo by andrecarini on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @06:36PM (#21579578)
> don't do something dumb > he stole a poster

How are we certain that he did in fact steal the poster? For all we know he could have been entirely innocent and any other tourist could have been arrested and tortured for forged reasons too.

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Re:USS Pueblo by ApolloFortyNine on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @08:19PM (#21580253)
Well in this case there is a video.
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Re:USS Pueblo by coin on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @10:54PM (#21580959)
It’s not clear in the video that it was him
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