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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I doubt his liberal family would take it that way.
Marty Inselman that only applies to us going to other countries. The liberals have a tight grip on the national agenda of unearned and confused rights.
I had a feeling he was a commie socialist right away. The way he was crying like a$#%&!@*while profusely apologizing for being a liberal idiot!
NUTS
If you go to N Korea you should expect to get arrested just for being American. You’ll be scrutinized every second you’re there. This student will probably never see the outside of that prison. He might even become collateral damage when we blast them off the planet. Sad.
Stupid$#%&!@*shouldn’t have been there.
They should be charged for his death
Treated bad!
Looks more like Marks IQ.
Cost him his life.