North Korea releases video of alleged political poster snatching by American college student

[LiberalElite]

http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/north-korea-releases-footage-of-captive-otto-warmbiers-crime-against-the-state-w167547

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North Korea released footage of American captive Otto Warmbier's "crime against the state" on Thursday, March 17, a day after sentencing the 21-year-old college student to 15 years of hard labor.

According to North Korean officials, Warmbier's crime was allegedly stealing a propaganda banner from his hotel corridor during his stay at the Yanggakdo International Hotel in the capital of Pyongyang. North Korea's state-run news agency showed the alleged footage of Warmbier entering a supposed restricted area and removing the banner from his hotel wall.

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[KittyWampus]

1. North Korea not the place to practise stupid college pranks

I don't think Otto will be getting much beer doing hard labor.

[LiberalElite]

2. He seemed like a bright guy but once

he crossed their border he must have lost 50 I.Q. points.

[Rex]

3. 15 years for stealing a propaganda banner! So why does NK even pretend to be the

warm and cuddly nation-socialist heaven they waste millions of dollars on a year? I guess that nation is doomed to be murdered on a whim by a madman that China likes, enough to keep pretending NK is a civilized nation.

[spanone]

4. i wonder how the U.S. administration manipulated him?...as he says

"I committed the crime of taking down a political slogan from the staff holding area of the Yanggakdo International Hotel," he said at the time. "I never, never should have allowed myself to be lured by the United States administration to commit a crime in this country. I wish that the United States administration never manipulated people like myself in the future to commit crimes against foreign countries. I entirely beg you, the people and government of the DPRK, for your forgiveness. Please! I made the worst mistake of my life!"

[LiberalElite]

5. I'm sure they made up a statement and he had to read it. nt

[spanone]

7. he says the U.S. administration lured him into committing a crime

"I never, never should have allowed myself to be lured by the United States administration to commit a crime in this country.

[LiberalElite]

8. Yes. They made it up and he had to read it or, in the two months

they've had him in custody (since early January), maybe they brainwashed him. There is no way I believe the U.S. government had anything to do with this.

[sharp_stick]

10. Yeah

I'm sure the North Koreans didn't make him say that.

Nobody in their right mind should ever visit that shit hole.

[KittyWampus]

6. lol! THANKS OBAMA!

[Rex]

9. They didn't he was forced to read that, probably scared shitless at this point in time.

Just like NK...that paragraph makes no sense. Why would the USA want him to start a war that NK's dictator so desperately seems to think he wants? Like I said, any American going to NK seems to forget we are still at WAR with NK.

NK is the global troll seeking attention all the time. Some stupid college kid is just what they needed to get back in the news.

[AngryAmish]

11. Does this piss anyone off?

Honestly, taking hostages like this? Do they have harbors we can mine? Do they have dams we can destroy?

This is your fellow citizen.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

12. Boy did I dodge a bullet

I have a small collection of ridiculous Robert Mugabe campaign posters I "collected" in Zimbabwe complete with his Hitler mustache and rants about the British.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

13. Wait a second... in a country blanketed in goofy iconography...

He stole that?

Rather than say something like this?