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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Aw come on guys, this is just a misunderstanding because of “cultural differences”. If Muslims can rape and commit Mayhem at will and be forgiven because of cultural differences then why can’t he steal and break the law in North Korea just because he is “culturally different”? Perhaps the West should take a clue on how to deal with the “culturally different”
Two year old story
Now you know the difference in judgment!
Here’s a clue stay the he’ll out of that he’ll hole
STUPID HILLBILLY
Mr. Warmbeer, I hope that you get treated humanely for the next fifteen years, however, don’t hold your breath. Hell those North Korean peasants are so hungry, you might wind up as soup. As my ol’ daddy used to say after he came home from the Korean War: “Rots a ruck!”
Dumbass. Wrong place wrong time… Sucks to be you
A lesson not easily learned. At least he is alive and not in the gallows.
You would think people would have enough sense to stay out of N.Korea. Then cry for help, what Morons. !!
He was wrong but come on, this is ridiculous.