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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Wh is probably rejoicing. Room for more illegal immigrants.
Cain the idiot for being stupid…
Why hard labor give him scars he will never forget…
This moron just sent a message to you other stupid people. When your in a foreign country you don’t steal their stuff. there’s no slap on the hand in these countries like it would have been here.
commy bastards
I bet this little punk learn the hard way, Communist countries don’t tolerate their c**p.
Who would want to be a tourist in North Korea?
I’m sure he has more than learned his lesson in the year he’s already been held. Our country needs to demand his release and get him back, this is no longer about a banner!
15 years with hard labor? We should not allow this!
There is so much to this country that I would like to see before I ever would think about traveling abroad .
Now , and the last few years have just not been a good time to be an American in a country like this.