Agreed. It is common knowledge North Koreans don't fuck around. It isn't like he just accidentally hiked into the country or something. I'd like Dennis Rodman to weigh in on this.
The idiot is expendable. All two of them. The US shouldn't try to argue with an idiot about an idiot. If the US can't protect it's citizens in a Fourth World back water like there, they ought to just bulldoze the slum.