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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Their hats look so funny
Finally. Liberal scum gets what he deserves. Bad parenting lol who goes to North K.? Idiot
so he “wanted a banner as a trophy”… sounds a little to me like he had the typical left wing ‘it’s all sunshine, happiness, unicorns and endless choruses of Kumbaya’ view of a communist totalitarian dictatorship, and he paid a steep price for his ignorance when he pulled a stunt that here would not even bring a criticism and he could retreat to a ‘safe space’ for protection. What the heck is any ‘student’ doing in North Korea anyway? Let’s be clear: even if he was wrong, the crime doesn’t warrant the punishment, but the overreach is typical of communist dictatorships- but likewise anyone going to North Korea for any reason “(tourism?? really?? wanna see all the starving peasants, or what?), exhibits an appaling lack of common sense and judgment in my opinion. It is one of the places in the world that I would not be caught dead in- and the kid is probably lucky that that wasn’t his lot.
I agree!
The Democratic Socialism we have here is much better.
Hahahaha
Dumb stupid kid
That’s what he gets for going there.
I know, right!
That is why I like the Democratic Socialism we have here in America.
what an idiot !!
Good thing Bernie is all about Democratic Socialism, like we already have here in America.