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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Wonder if his parents were given the promised $ to him?
Too stupid. What the hell would any american go visit North Korea?
Bastards.
Send all the liberals there
Time to put these people in their place!
First of all this guy is an idiot for going to North Korea for vacation, second of all you try to steal something from North Korea, this guy should be kicking his own$#%&!@*
What in the hell is an American doing in North Korea
This alone merits a nuke attack
Poor dumb SOB. Why the hell would ANYBODY go there? If you go to NK you are looking for trouble and if you find it – so be it. They LOOK for a reason to detain them – not that they need one. In a totalatarian state there is no rule of law – merely whatever they think it is at the time. Steal a banner – spit on sidewalk – whatever you do is a “crime against the state”.
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