Reply #5: Different "Justice" For Different Prisoners

[KharmaTrain]

A couple years ago, I saw an independent film about the North Korean gulags...video snuck out of executions and beatings. It's a ruthless system that is an instrument of a terror state to dominate and subjugate its own people.

I don't see the journalists being subjected to the worst of that system. They're too valuable. Right now there appears to be a struggle for power going on inside North Korea that can explain a lot of the current sabre rattling. It's someone or group trying to show their authority and an international reaction can demonstrate who has power and who doesn't.

These prisoners are too high profile and they can and will be used as bargaining chips down the road. Also, the last thing a North Korean regime would want is a pair of Western journalists seeing the worst of their system. They'll be used as propaganda instead...they're too valuable right now and will increase their bargaining "value" down the road.