North Korea Sentences US College Student

via Kyodo (Reuters)

North Korea- After accusations of "crimes against the state" for stealing a propaganda banner from a hotel, University of Virginia student Otto Warmbier has been sentenced to 15 years of hard labor by the North Korea supreme court. Warmbier appeared on a state-sponsored TV program, tearfully confessing his crimes against the state, even claiming that he was bribed by his church back home to sow seeds of disunity in North Korea by stealing the banner. Ah yes, North Korea, that's how the US tends to destroy states. Not through war or arming opposition groups, but through individual college students who are there on a guided tours of the country. Tourism will be your undoing, Kim. Now, why anybody would want to go to North Korea is beyond us, but that shouldn't mean that you get sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for stealing a goddamn banner. How much could a banner possibly cost? $25? We'll give Kim Jong-un $25 right now and a good punch in the face while we're at it. This isn't the first time that North Korea has handed down harsh sentences to foreigners. Currently, a Korean-Canadian is serving a life sentence of hard labor. Warmbier sentencing comes just days after a UN official declared that Kim Jong-un should be tried in the international courts for crimes against humanity for his active sponsorship of torture and ill-treatment of prisoners. Can we add to those charges "being a fucking dickhead?"

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