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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Stupid jerk raised to respect nothing got caught in one of the worst places on earth pulling a theft. Yeah, the punishment is overly severe but you don’t pull stunts like this in N Korea.
Why do people want to visit this hell hole anyway?
Stupid is one that goes to North Korea !
Why was he in North Korea? I think by now that there have been enough stories of people getting into trouble in foreign countries that it is difficult to be sympathetic toward someone pushing their luck in a communist state.
Well he did go there and do something stupid
Don’t pity this man, or his family. Obviously stupid is in their genes. This story should be plastered all over mainstream and social media for those who think Socialistic societies are great. F@#k him, don’t let this waste of sperm become a bargaining chip, just count him as a loss.
Welcome to communism, Marxist, leftist ideology
the$#%&!@*stole a sign in a foreign land …
Hard labor for a liberal arts major!
Granted, it’s a ridiculous sentence, but it’s hard to feel much sympathy for an idiot that would even GO there, let alone try to STEAL something while there.
Who the$#%&!@*goes to North Korea? Seriously! On purpose?