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- Why is minutes wasting their time with this traitor and deserter. This is a insult to every military person who served honorably. I served my country for over 20 years in the United States Army and 21 years with the federal goverment as a meteorologist and hydrologist. Generally your news program is very good, hope you don't continue with programs along these line. As you just lost a viewer.
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- What an odd story. Kinda like a bear or cougar running into the zoo to live out his days in a cage voluntarily. And then calling it paradise.
Perhaps North Korea was able to lend Mr. Dresnok some badly needed stability in his life. And maybe his son will bear sweeter fruit than his father as a diplomat.
But it appears that. Mr. Dresnock,like North Korea is falling apart. Nothing last forever. Americans and Koreans have our ambitions. But God, too, has his own designs that dont necessarily have anything to do with either. - Reply to this comment
- A wonderful example of the truth that a human being will fall for anything, no matter how obvious it is that reality doesn't support it. The sad fact is that we don't have to go half way across the world to see this principal at work, just read some of the post...
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- What a sad, sad story. A not-too-bright guy makes a stupid decision and pays for it--as he should--for the rest of his life.
Hardly someone to be angry at, and not worthy of our sympathy. Gone and--rightly--forgotten. - Reply to this comment
- I note that so many posters here think this guy "used" the media to spew his whatever. I don't see where he, himself, initiated publiczing his story. It was those two British guys who went after this story. Note that after 44 years Joe's story is only now coming out. Blame the "free, Western civilization" media for this. I expect the only reason the N. Korean government let these guys do the documentary was just their way of giving out propaganda about how wonderful their society is (at least, they think it is). Of course, I wouldn't trade my life here in the good ol' US of A for what goes on in N. Korea. Even with all this madness of technology and geekdom. But at least I can choose how much of it I'll buy into (like using it to express my considered opinion in a forum such as this). But as I said previously, this guy named Joe had such a dismal life as an American, it's no wonder he fell for the N. Korean exploitation.
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- I served in the U.S. Army on the Korean DMZ in 1973. There were hundreds of "Joe Dresnoks" there--who stayed on their own side of the line--at any given time. We were just a bunch of young, lonely kids deployed to a distant, forgotten, seemingly God-forsaken--and dangerous--place for 13 months. I'm just suprised more didn't "go north."
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- Wow - this is one mean-spirited angry little pissant - one thing is for *** sure - the US is much better off without the likes Joe Dresnok.
That's not to say that the story isn't interesting - jsut that this guy never had anything to contribute to anywhere, anytime, anyplace -- he's more than happy to sit there and be taken care even knowing that others were starving so he could fill his fat belly. - Reply to this comment
- After seeing the segment on the technology and geek revolution, I think maybe this Joe Dresnok guy has the better part! The revelation that bicycles aren't even much in evidence so the government can keep better track of its citizens--well look what all the mobility in this country leads to: nationwide serial killers, rampant drug dealing and children running away and living on the streets and resorting to God knows what to survive! And the breakdown of families that leads to all this horror. But getting back to Joe Dresnok, one should remember that at the time he ran away to N.Korea, he was a poor soul. Unless one walked in his shoes, one ought not to be too critical of what he did. Of course, we can sit here in our ivory towers in the good ol' US of A and pat ourselves on the back that WE would never do such a thing, and OUR government doesn't use defectors from other countries to ours as a propaganda tool. Hey, didn't you hear Bush's State of the Union speech last week? Talk about propaganda machine! Sure, the N.Korean government gave this poor slob from the U.S. red carpet treatment: apartment, food, clothing and Jack Daniels. Joe probably felt like he'd died and went to heaven.
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- What was the point of this story? Joe Dresnok is a traitor and deserter! Shame on you for being his champion. He does not deserve any attention from anyone is the USA.
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- I found the story interesting. Mr. Dresnok appears to be a pompous ***, not to mention the already known fact that he is a traitor. Glad that he "decided" to stay there, as if he had any other option. I also found it disturbing to see that he is "fed" Jack Daniels at will; can't imagine what that must cost there. One would think he would have refused the drink and requested that the money be spent on rice for hungry North Koreans since he acknowledged that he knew about millions dying there of hunger.
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