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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if he is stupid enough to go there, then he got what he deserved. DUMB$#%&!@*!!
Go to another country and break the law, you pay the price. Sorry. Yes the punishment is insanely disproportionate to the crime but…..it is what it is.
Whar was doing there to begin with? Stupid move
When you grow up,thinking you can do and say anything, you are brainwashed into thinking your own country is oppressive, and have not received an adequate education regarding communism, THIS is what happens
I can’t believe he doesn’t get taxpayer money, housing, free healthcare? What’s this world coming to?
Why would you go there in there first place?
Why anyone would want to visit that sewer is beyond me!!
And some still worry about Russia and elections. There’s a bomb with your name on it coming to a city near you.
The liberals will go get him
Dumb ass