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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whats he doing in North Korea anyway?
WHY WOULD YOU GO TO NORTH KOREA IN THE FIRST PLACE , IF YOU ARE AMERICAN THEY HATE YOU ?
I LOVE stories like this. Serves him right. And then he does the crybaby thing boo hoo hoo.
Now all kinds of effort and money is being spent by our government to try to get him back.
Can’t figure out why. 15 years at hard labor will obviously be a far better education for him than college was.
He now has learned that his prof’s have lied.
He is an idiot for going there and screwing up. Dont feel sorry for him at all.
This is so typical of the generation coming up. They think they can do what they want and not suffer consequences for it. Now this special snowflake is in trouble and hes crying like a baby. Suck it up moron…this is what you get when you act a fool in another country
This is sad, his life is ruined. Unfortunately this generation is clueless about how the world works.
What a dumbo
When your “privilege” pass has been revoked