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Norks sentence US student to 15 years hard labor for trying to steal propaganda sign
i guess he thought it would look cool in his dorm room or something?
Quote:
The University of Virginia student being held in North Korea was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years of hard labor for trying to steal a propaganda sign from a hotel in Pyongyang.
At the end of February, during a highly orchestrated news conference in Pyongyang, the student confessed to a “very severe and pre-planned” crime.
Reading from handwritten notes, Warmbier said he tried to steal a political sign promoting “the [North] Korean people’s love for their system” from the hotel, according to the official Korean Central News Agency. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...bor-in-prison/
gotta get this in somewhere:
Analysts expect that Warmbier also was directed in this way to deliver the statement, in which the student said he was impressed by North Korea’s “humanitarian treatment of severe criminals like myself.”
Awwww...poor baby. You'd think by the time you are in college, you'd know not to steal. I applaud the harsh punishment, as it certainly deters crime. We can learn a few things from this crazy leader.
i guess he thought it would look cool in his dorm room or something?
gotta get this in somewhere:
Analysts expect that Warmbier also was directed in this way to deliver the statement, in which the student said he was impressed by North Korea’s “humanitarian treatment of severe criminals like myself.”
I thought I read somewhere that someone from the US was going to pay him a lot of money to bring that banner back?
15 years in a North Korean labor camp - he's a dead man. Not many people can survive that, let alone a soft college student. What an idiot that guy was.
Awwww...poor baby. You'd think by the time you are in college, you'd know not to steal. I applaud the harsh punishment, as it certainly deters crime. We can learn a few things from this crazy leader.
Yep. The 'special little snowflake' thought that just because he's an American he's immune from having to obey foreign laws in a foreign country.
Wake up call. It's a big bad world out there, and NK and other countries don't have the same freedoms we have in the US. How can anyone be a University of Virginia (very selective admissions) undergrad and not know that?
Best to just stay in your own house with the doors locked 24/7?
Of course not, but why would anyone want to visit a country that literally hates your own country's guts? They will manipulate an arrest for you and then imprison you to send a message to your country's government. It happens often..
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Norks sentence US student to 15 years hard labor for trying to steal propaganda sign
