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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Where was obama ????
I think that u should help him to get out there, whatever keep yourself in his position, it’s politics,
Well at least he will become fluent in Korean language.
Stay out of the countries that hate Americans
Why would anyone go to North Korea?
Draft all liberal’s and send them to North Korea to free him.
Dumb$#%&!@*
Hard penalty, but when will kids start obeying laws and regulations instead of total rebellion for law especially in another country that unlike ours, mean what they say.
Don’t understand why US doesn’t make a big issue over this. We should demand his release!
The dumbass should have never went there