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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He’ll star in N. Korean propaganda films the rest of his life, and will be paid in kimchi.
Yeah, tell that to all the undocumented immigrants in the US
Well if you are an American and choose to go to NK for ANY reason, you are a very stupid person.. No sympathy here.. Your just a flippin idiot..
The boy is truly terrified and most likely has been beaten and vile things done to him. He will most likely be a broken young man, if nk chooses to let him go. Going to a country with a ruthless dictator, should have been a loud enough clue to his need to toe the line.
So sad…just stay out of the country…
Natural selection
I’d call it natural selection. I’d rather p**s in a light socket than go there…common sense isn’t taught in books.
What is the matter with these people who want to go this terrible N. Korea? Then dio something stupid to land in jail! Hope Trump can get him out!
Let’s firing our young man home
rgar is not right