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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When they get tossed in prison for 15 years
Wat kind of$#%&!@*goes there
hes perty stupid
Young college student, and very stupid! Must have been a democrat.
Well Socialism is a Liberals dream society, their Utopia in other words, so they probably would be fine with a communist country like N Korea. (Antifa would or so they claim. They have no clue the majority of them how communist societies treat their citizens they are being sold a bill of goods by George Soros and his paid lackeys) I mean hell their favorite T-shirt is a portrait of Che Guevara they are so clueless of the atrocities he committed. The thing is I do feel bad for this kid. He is in a world of hurt right now and no one is going to be able to bail him out. That is the problem though these kids have come to believe that there will always be someone to bail them out no matter how badly or irresponsibly they act. They can get a divorce if the marriage doesn’t work out, an Abortion if they get a girl pregnant, they can stay at mom and dads house indefinitely and blame the economy, they stay on their parents insurance until they are 26 as well. We are taking away all responsibility for these grown$#%&!@*adults by treating them like kids. He should have known better than to try and do something like that. I have been overseas (Peace Corps) in hostile places and when I was there I never thought twice about doing such a thing. I knew they were looking for ANY excuse to kick me out or use me as a political hostage to gain concessions or favors from the State Dept. We need to show this to every teenager who gets an overseas education that even something as insignificant as taking a banner, which would be considered minor offense here, is a big deal there. Especially in a hostile country like N Korea!
A lot of kids nowadays think…”Now, getting it now attitude, short-span attention, immediate gratification” is their thing. For the most part, it works here in USA, but not at other countries and especially with our enemies’ places. May his mistake be a lesson for all of us.
Stay out of countries that hate the USA
HARD LESSON TO LEARN BUT THE SENTENCE FIT THE CRIME! STATE DEPARTMENT NEEDS TO GET INVOLVED BUT RIGHT NOW IS IMPOSSIBLE!
Lesson in this story is stay at home .
I do not feel sorry for this$#%&!@* He was told he couldn’t go where he went. But he did so and broke another countries law. People come to this country break our laws but the liberals stop the punishment. He wanted to be a cool guy and hero to his colledge buddies. Big man on campus. Well it blew up in the assholes face. Now he is just a crting little$#%&!@* He won’t have to do fifteen years some one will kill him.