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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All those who disrepect, spurn or burn the American Flag..should not only stand, salute and sing the National Anthem, they should kiss the ground flies over!
He’s got to be a liberal. Hope he likes rice.
Hope he likes egg rolls in his$#%&!@*
What kind of idiot was this guy? I feel bad for the kid, but…. He was begging for this.
Whatever happened to don’t touch it doesn’t belong nor isint for you to take…cane his ass….petty thefts in other countries loose hands over c**p like this…serves him right..guess his parents didn’t teach him anything…
He never should have been over there in the first place
Should have stayed home
Going to North Korea was stupid.
1. You don’t go to a foreign country, especially one with strained US relations, and break a law.
2. Maybe our government could step in and help, but there may be little they can do.
3. Referring to #1: don’t be an idiot!
Shameful to do this to anyone who liked visiting you . Now you want to show him the ugly. Wow