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.
Follow up on the rest of the story on the next page.
Dumbass
And why don’t we go to North Korea?..
Why is he there
What was the fool doing in NK in the first place??
If you are out of the country you better remember they enforce their laws. Im sure their prisoners don’t have iPhones and internet. Don’t be stupid
Just another reason to kick the little fat boy’s$#%&!@*
Let’s bomb their stragestic places and get our boy home.
I was thinking the same!
Only a fool would choose to vacation is a tyrannical country…. what exactly was he going to do in North Korea? Tour the concentration camps, labor camps? “Talk” with the citizens of North Korea who understand quite well that the State is monitoring every word, gesture and sign they make? Give your money to a dictatorship that is actually starving his people? Exactly why would you choose to “vacation” in a tyrannical run country? Or is he a Bernie Sanders follower that believes all the lies of Socialism? I’m sorry he will spent the majority of his youth in a prison camp, but he made the choice to put his life in the hands of a tyrant, then chose to steal ( in this country where you don’t actually need to do anything wrong to get convicted, incarcerated or even killed..).. the ignorance of Americans is incredible..
Gloria Harris Faress Maybe he’s a candidate for The Darwin Award//