This isn’t even an exaggeration, this is genuinely what some liberals think:

The main issue is if that boat radio’d anyone (since a large portion of the population is brainwashed), NK would know and the seals would effectively be dead since they were right next to a base.

It also doesn’t remove the risk of them immediately contacting NK since if they don’t speak up they would be punished by NK. NK is notoriously underfunded, I could see a patrol boat having men pass the time by diving for extra food since nothing had ever happened before on their patrols. They wouldn’t be in uniform to dive and guns aren’t waterproof, and the seals were rushing to get away after the gunfire so probably did a quick cursory check.

It would explain why the boat was there in the first place which seems more believable than notoriously impoverished civilians having diving gear to go diving into the ocean after midnight in restricted waters during the dead of winter. The NK actively “employs” it’s citizens as lookouts and patrols, and with lack of funds they may very well have regular people on patrol with their boats. NK/China/Russia are known to have boats that pose as civilian crafts as a “navy” of fishing boats that harass others in the water while also avoiding detection.

Literally all those questions can be answered by “they were ordered/forced to patrol there, and decided to dive for shellfish due to hunger since nothing ever happens.”

I put this 9 posts up the page and it had ended fairly amicably until I randomly got accused of being racist and people like you who wonder why I would discuss something people are unsure about. Someone asked a question, I answered with my reasoning and proceeded to get 5 different arguments shoved into my mouth.

Not from Reddit this time, but from a forum: https://knockout.chat/thread/75294