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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What in the hell is he doing in N Korea???
Why is he in Korea in the first place!
Sorry about this. However “fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” Needs to be remembered.
Why did this young man go there in the first place ? Very sad story here .Fiftheen years prison with hard labor,he may not even survive .If he does he’ll be very aged from the ordeal. This is a lesson to all young people that think they can handle foreign countries, you may regret your decision.
He musta forgot that not every country on the planet tolerates that kind of c**p aye?
Why would you want to go there in the first place?
So y’all are down to posting old news?
When I was a young man I befriended an old English gentleman who had served in the British army in Arabia. At the time it was a pure monarchy and rather antagonistic to westerners. He mentioned the scenario of if you were standing on the sidewalk and a car lost control and hit you it would be your fault. Why would it be your fault? Because if you were in America where you belong it wouldn’t have happened. This wasn’t just hypothetical, it was the way things were done. What makes us think anything has changed In the Arab nations or North Korea? I guess the ones to blame is their parents for spoiling their little brats.
Well this is one millennial who is experiencing first hand what it is like to live without the protections of the rights he is accustomed to in the U.S. … the same rights that the libs and his generation are determined trash
I can’t think of one thing that would make me want to go there, let alone go there and commit a crime. All that college didn’t give him common sense.