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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I would agree to this..
I feel sorry for this guy but he and his parents should have known better to go to NK. The gov can not interfere to liberate stupid people from foreign jails.
Oh ok.. did know that
That’s not a shock to me or anyone else for that matter
Sure he was on the putting green and never even saw the plea
With a college group or not
That’s the last place you’d ever find me
release that student koreans u have no legal choice koreans release that student
Any American in North Korea that can leave…probably should have left already. Any American in South Korea that doesn’t have to be there should probably leave. I seen an article talking about Japan calling for some 60,000 of its citizens to get out of South Korea. The war could start any day. Another article indicated that China has 150,000 troops geared up and ready to roll on the boarder they share.
You should educate yourself on real socialism before you make yourself look bad again.
Lucky fool to travel there.
Someone needs to call the White House and talk to Donald Donald J Trump
What in the hell was he doing in N. Korea? Guess we can ask him in 15 years.