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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Ethan Stupka So I guess it’s OK for you to make a generalization about everyone else. North Korea was orignally founded as a Soviet sattelite country. Remember the Union of Soviet SOCIALIST Republic?
What play stupid game…. Win stupid prizes
Maybe we should send Bernie and Killery to NK so they can learn exactly what they are talking about.
Good question!
No sympathy from me!! What in the hell did he go there for? He got what he deserved! Kinda like that twit and her two liberal$#%&!@*friends that were locked up in Iran!
You are so right Gerry
oh bummer-where are mommy and daddy now???
We must do something !
Sad to see young people in America have not got the sense of a dead frog ..they are voting for Bernie Sanders really.
Because hr went into a country that despises us and got caught stealing. If we were to go in they nuke us. The punk made his decision now he pays.