I am planning a major blog post next week, but for now have a good holiday weekend, and please don’t let your fun be injurious to others’ well-being. Let’s all have a safe three days and enter Tuesday healthy and happy.
I am planning a major blog post next week, but for now have a good holiday weekend, and please don’t let your fun be injurious to others’ well-being. Let’s all have a safe three days and enter Tuesday healthy and happy.
Otto Warmbier is 24602. Let me explain this. The man, age 22, technically died on North Korean soil after what was determined to be torture and injurious imprisonment. He was accused and convicted of mishandling a propaganda poster. He was not caught with the poster in his possession, but film footage apparently showed that he removed it from a wall and set it down because it was heavy, after a night out in Pyongyang with other travelers. The trial concluded that he “damaged” the poster depicting a head of state, a serious crime in North Korea. He was sentenced to years of hard labor, served 17 months in captivity, was returned to the United States after negotiations, but arrived comatose with little explanation from the North Koreans, and died in a hospital shortly afterward.
In Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables, Jean Valjean actually stole a loaf of bread to feed his starving family, and served years of hard labor for doing so, as prisoner 24601.
That is why Otto Warmbier is 24602.
His mother, Cindy Warmbier, has commented on the diplomatic attempts to work with North Korea, but these negotiations by the Trump administration appear to solve nothing. The difference between a country of freedom and one of mystery is hard to decipher at times, but a man who, at age 22, hardly started his adult life, should not have suffered and died as he did. We may receive no truth in this terrible affair, and both countries remain at odds.
What I will remember is Otto Warmbier, #24602.
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