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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Hope this kid make it out alive to write a book on it.
When he gets out is he going to Iran next
Why would you go to this country. I do not understand how you can be this stupid
A college student should be aware of the ‘climate’ of the country he is visiting. NK is NOT a friendly country; your life is in your own hands when you cross that border. My father, when faced with a mess he got himself into, would remark, ” I shouldastoodinbed”. Stay out of ‘enemy’ countries. View on line. Much safer.
He should not have been there in the first place.
If your stupid enough to go to that country you deserve what you get.
Patricia Garris your right on that one. Especially a country that hates us.
Another college graduate without enough sense to know you don’t mess around in other countries, especially No. Korea. Probably an alt left liberal
Next time he will stay the hell out of North Korea.
And the college students here our rebelling against the United States! Send them to North Korea!