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He was charged with assault and held in a South Korean prison. To get away from discipline in the USA, he ran across the border into North Korea.

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[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Doesn’t seem like a smart move. The last American held in North Korea came home in a coma and died shortly thereafter

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm guessing he's asking for asylum and offering up some sort of secrets.

[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, but he’s a private. He can’t know too much

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You'd be surprised what peons in the military actually know. and what he knows is probably more than what they know. (or at least, more confirmation of what they know.)

not saying it wasn't a dumb move on his part. or that he really knows much. He might, but he probably thinks he knows more than he does.

[–] girlfreddy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yup. The recent discord release of top secret documents showed everyone how lax security really is.

[–] moozogew@lemmy.fmhy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Did you see the story about classified info regularly being sent to random people in Mali because they send it to .ml instead of .mil by mistake?

But yeah honestly I doubt it matters what he knows, having him parade Infront of people saying how awfull the west is would play well to the home crowd, they can pretend to have gotten great secrets from him and he'll be given all the luxuries North Korea can spare... A small concrete room and almost enough food to live!

[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Teixera had a very specific clearance because he had an IT job with access to those files. It’s not common

[–] freecandy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The last one that made big news.

[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

He was the last person to enter, it is true a couple others were released shortly after

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine North Korea being your best option for a place to live.

[–] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They were flying him back to Texas, so North Korea is better than Texas. Wow

[–] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Least shocking thing about this. Someone needs to leave abbot on a freeway on-ramp.

[–] HWK_290@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, 911...i saw Greg Abbott walking down the side of the highway in a diaper...

[–] Andjhostet@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

That one I can believe

[–] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Guess who is donating teeth to North Korea? This guy.

[–] girlfreddy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

The plot thickens.

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