Fifteen year’s in a North Korean prison with hard labor is the future for American tourist, Otto Warmbier, the 21-year-old University of Virginia undergrad, convicted of subversion. The trial in the North Korean Supreme Court only took an hour to convict and sentence.
The college student was first tried in the media, where he was forced to confess, through tears, that he had attempted to steal a banner. The North Korean government said he committed “an anti-state crime with ‘the tacit connivance of the U.S. government and under its manipulation,'” yet it is difficult to see how the United States was connected with this petty crime.
Warmbeir begged for forgiveness for this alleged ‘hostile act’, saying that his attempted theft was to bring home a trophy from the hotel in which he was staying. Yanggakdo International Hotel, like many hotels in North Korea has areas off-limits to foreigners. It was in this part of the hotel that Warmbeir attempted to lift the banner.
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Why do people insist on doing stupid stuff in other countries and then complain when they have to pay the piper. Crazy!
He was put up to it by his schoolmaster in exchange for a second hand car…
What idiot would go there, amyway????
It’s a dictatorship but when do you allow facts to get into the story.
Dumbass. You don’t do stupid things in other peoples countries. Especially when the country you are in , is run by a nutjob.
f**k those north korean gooks, zipper heads, slopes., dumb asses !
Something about this whole thing doesn’t sound right… this reeks of “staged” for some reason
I feel bad for this guy, but he really should have done his research on North Korea. They aren’t the “good kind” of Communist/Socialists! Wait, that’s right, there isn’t a good kind!
very stupid on his part but F..K Korea they should of been nuked years ago ….
Why would you go there to begin with