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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He grew up in a PC safe zone, where he was taught socialism was a kinder, more equal, form of government, than those evil American conservatives. A hard lesson in the real world of socialism!
Good thing Bernie is all about Democratic Socialism, you know like we already have here in this country.
I have no doubt his left winged idiot professor taught him the N. Korea was a great free communist country. Guess lesson well learned.
Did the lad think being American made him immune to foreign laws?
Im thinking he missed the parts about right and wrong, myself.
Why do these idiots go to these countries?
That is idiotic. Outrageous! That’s what socialism is. Stupidity.People get punished for long periods of time for just taking such trivial things. It just doesn’t make any sense at all.
Good dumb f**k
I don’t know about you but N. Korea wouldn’t be on vacation list.
Bernie supporters , PAY ATTENTION!