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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What was this tumper doing in N. Korea?
Knowing North Korea is what they are and others have been treated badly, why in the hell go there?
They can keep him maybe he will learn something
Wow… 15 years?
Bernie is all about Democratic Socialism, like we already have here in America. Go Bernie!
All because of a poster, proof the zombie generation are incapable of thinking.
He will get a year at best. These Connors don’t want to destroy their own source of people that vacation there. Why anyone would want to go there is beyond me but hey their crazy not stupid.
Much more like the way Trump is wanting to rule. Like Trump praising the way the hold power and control in North Korea.
There was a time I would have been outraged for treating a fellow American that way.
Thanks to our Democratic-Socialist effort to destroy the very concept of “”America””, I would be hard pressed to even care if North Korea Nuked the White house.
Well except for the fact that we just painted it…. 🙁
What was he thinking going over there???