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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Exactly! Show me one person that has not at one point or another committed an indiscretion in their lives! It’s just too easy to spout off that self righteous garbage from the comfort of their home. He had to admit his “crime” on camera and beg for forgiveness he never was to have, do hat North Korea can laugh at America and parade America as weak. This sentence has nothing to do with his offense but everything to do with being hated for being American.
Asshole commie’s are just using him to thumb their noses at us.
Yes we do and it will get worse …
Robert Fink
Look at him. He’s soft. He won’t make it through two years.
Dirty Chinese
stupid liberal kid who does not have a brain
He’s an American. He tried to swipe a stupid poster. It was foolish but we’ve all done much stupider things than this. North Korea is a bunch of commy scumbags and this guy deserves a bit of solidarity from his own countrymen. I hope we’re doing everything we can to affect his release.
Yes
Thus the slaughter of millions of native Americans.
F*** North Korea.