[ArcticCelt]

>this kids thinks he's gonna prove a point by taking down a propaganda poster?

I think its even worst.

"took down a propaganda sign in Pyongyang so he could exchange it for money outside the country"

According to the article he did to sell it on ebay.

[millstone]

That's the motive ascribed to him by the DPRK, a confession they extracted while he was detained. They routinely extract false confessions of "plots to overthrow the state" and the like. So this confession is worthless.

We probably can't know what he actually did, or why he did it. The incident could even be made from whole cloth.

[andrewflnr]

The "plot to overthrow the state" fabricated storyline would probably be activism, not petty profiteering.