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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What the hell was he doing in Korea? Why didn’t he just go to the beach like all the other kids?
Why would anyone want to go to North Korea?
Exactly.
Shouldn’t be messing where should be messing
I will never buy your scams on phone and cards. Quit it!
Has anyone noticed that the American in the picture looks dead, a body, a non breathing person, the picture looks like those they made back in the late eighteen hundreds where living people would pose with dead people.
Where was out State Dept on this a year ago when the sentence was handed down? Hillary not doing her damn job again apparently. And she wants another shot at being President in 2020 ?!?! Come on libs, defend her again…
Probably the first time he ever had to do any work.
This is sad that the US student did not know it isn’t safe to go to countries like these.
college doesn’t mean you have brains or common sense apparently