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N Korea Sentences American Student to 15 Years of Hard Labor
N Korea Sentences American Student to 15 Years of Hard Labor
Terrified US student, 21, breaks down in hysterics as he is sentenced to 15-years hard labor in a North Korean gulag for trying to steal a political banner Student Otto Warmbier, 21, was given 15 years hard labor in North Korea Warmbier stole a banner with a political slogan from his Pyongyang hotel He said a church group had asked him to bring back a ‘trophy’ from his trip Warmbier begged for forgiveness at a press conference in February. North Korea’s highest court sentenced an American tourist to 15 years in prison with hard labor on Wednesday for subversion. He admitted to attempting to steal a propaganda banner from a restricted area of his hotel at the request of an acquaintance who wanted to hang it in her church. Otto Warmbier, a 21-year-old University of Virginia undergraduate student, was convicted and sentenced in a one-hour trial at the North’s Supreme Court. He was charged with subversion. No further details were immediately available. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic…
