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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MILLENNIALS IN THIS COUNTRY SHOULD LEARN A LESSON FROM THIS…..HE STOLE A BANNER FROM THE HOTEL HE WAS STAYING IN, GETS 15 yrs….MILLENNIALS LIBERALS RIOT, SET CARS ON FIRE BECAUSE THE MAN WHOM THEY DID NOT VOTE FOR WON….NOTHING IS DONE TO THEM…WHICH OF THESE DO YOU THINK WILL LEARN A LESSON FROM THEIR BEHAVIOR..?
Old news!
Just another good reason to never travel to North Korea!
So sad.
Are you serious? He is surely getting way more punishment than he deserves but he made some really bad decisions. This is North Korea we are talking about. We are seriously close to war with them already. Americans who leave the country are taking their lives in their own hands. Poor kid is just going to have to tough it out.
Evil country
This is an old story.
Tough c**p , be STUPID and pay the price, this isnt the US where the bleeding hearts roam …..!
Do the crime, do the time, its that simple. Don
Some idiot professor must have convinced him that it was safe.