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Originally Posted by Rick Lee
By that standard, we should honor other countries' laws when their citizens break them in our country. So, if a North Korean defector makes it to the U.S., we should send him back because he broke N. Korean law.  |
No, you're purposely mistating my point. The US asserts it jurisdiction and applies it's laws. North Korea might assert its jurisdiction and prosecute the guy, but when he's in our control he won't be prosecuted because he broke no US laws. As a matter of fact, that's how we're dealing with the guys caught in Afghanastan or wherever. We're asserting US jurisdiction over them. They mau have broken no local law, but they broke US law and we're detaining them for it. If we want to assert US jurisdiction we better take it all the way and not pick and choose what part of our laws apply.