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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That’s funny. Because when I was in school, they taught us that socialist countries where exactly like that
Yuppy 911
An indoctrinated zombie meets reality !
Asshole. Why in the world would any normal person go to North Korea? The people are starving to death and the little imperial leader is an insane sociopath bent on nuking The US…..
Laws weren’t in place at that point.
Get out with that false equivalent b******t
Monroe Jackson was it illegal to come then?
Well then i guess you are just another one of those people who will have to live and learn.lol
People need to realize other countries don’t put up with allot of our liberal BULL$#%&!@*, when you travel in other countries you will find out the hard way they don’t put up with our BULL$#%&!@*!!!
What on earth was he doing on North Korean soil? That is like sticking you head in a lion’s mouth. Everyone knows they hate us.
Why do people go to north Korea ? Stupid stupid they deserve what thy get