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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LOL CHUMP.
Why exactly was he doing there? That’s like an American woman visiting Pakistan and expecting not to get beaten
The North Koreans may have less time than that to live.
chris schubert before you enter these countries you are told what their laws are and what the punishment will be. I had a friend whose brother and a friend went to Saudi Arabia to work for their company. They were told the laws what would happen if they broke them. The friend tried to take gold out of the country which is a no no, he was taken to the hospital and had his hand surgically removed.
Hell.lve been allover the world and l don’t even lime traveling to Mexico now with the climate the way it is against Americans must less China or north korea
Most of these ignorant college kids wanna slam Trump for wanting to protect our freedoms in this country but have no freakin ideal what communism is really like. This guy does, I promise.
They can hav all our snow flakes
Drop the bomb on those bastards!!
Here’s a message folks. Stay the hell out of North Korea….. It’s not like it’s a garden spot or tourist Mecca anyway….
He deserves five years just for being stupid.