Some thoughts on the Kenneth Bae issue

The stories about Kenneth Bae being ill treated in the DPRK have been made up as the press conference he gave proves it. Bae was arrested in the DPRK for serious offences which could have meant the death penalty as he acted as a spy for US imperialism and a counter-revolutionary who tried to overthrow the socialist system of the DPRK . Bae was treated in the Pyongyang Friendship Hospital which is normally used by tourists in the DPRK (I myself had my teeth done there in 2002) , Bae was able to correspond with his family and even receive visits . He looks well , in fact he looks like he put on weight , hardly an overworked starvation victim . There are stories of old age pensioners starving to death in UK hospitals so Bae , a criminal , received better treatment than they did . Bae was allowed to hold a press conference and was not handcuffed to guards, Would Britain and the US allow the same for a prisoner convicted of serious offences ?. It is likely that as Bae confessed to serious crime he may be granted a pardon or released as part of a general DPRK prisoner amnesty on an important anniversary but of course his case may be complicated by the hostile anti DPRK policy of the US such as holding provocative military exercises and the lies and slanders about the socialist system of the DPRK spread by the US and other Western media.