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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Once anyone leaves the United States, except our military, they are, in my opinion, on there own. What the hell prompted this idiot to go to north korea anyway?
This is what happens when people go to Countries that don’t take $#%&!@* from foriegners ISN’T THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA GREAT!!!
if you choose to go to a country hostile to your own you are the problem, you go to a country friendly to your own you generally don’t have problem as long as you don’t become a problem
remember Michael faye?
NK: an insane nation of brainwashed individuals…
Yes stay away ft
Get the boy home…was it stupid to go thete…yeah…but he doesnt deserve to be starved to death and that is what happens there
Hard lesson for a snowflake!!
He tried to steal a poster.
He will learn more his first year of hard labor than he has in four years of college here.