North Korea has imprisoned two American reporters. Many belive that the N. Korean goverment is going to use them to keep the US from doing things such as searching their boats. (if the United States does somethig they don't like they can torture the prisoners and we stop). However, they were illegally. What should be their fate?
Now. That said - I can see... maybe where you're coming from. He is very oppressive, and runs a tight shop.. on principle. However, on paper, in terms of the damage that has been caused as a result of those regimes, and the sheer number of those wounded by the oppression, Kim Jong-il is a rank amateur compared to the likes of Stalin and Hitler.
You also have to remember that the population of NK is much less than that of the Soviet Union and of Nazi Germany. But I can see where you are coming from as well.
Just because they're American doesn't make them any different. If NK has probable cause to arrest them under they're laws they can get what ever gets thrown at them. Regardless of where they are they must obey the laws regardless of if it is biased or not. It is well within the law to even have them executed if they decide on that. So this is the rare case that I'm on the communists side.
All's fair in war, they have prisoners, they own them, they have the right to kill them if they so choose. And yes, I consider us (the world) to be at war with them.
