All posts tagged "Otto Warmbier"

  • (Yonhap)
    N. Korea sentences US tourist to 15 yrs in prison

    PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea’s highest court sentenced an American tourist to 15 years in prison with hard labor on Wednesday for subversion. He allegedly attempted to steal a propaganda banner from a restricted area...

    • Posted March 16, 2016
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  • American student Otto Warmbier, right, bows as Warmbier is presented to the reporters on Monday, Feb. 29, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea announced late last month that it had arrested the 21-year-old University of Virginia undergraduate student. (AP Photo/Kim Kwang Hyon)
    North Korea puts tearful detained American before cameras

    PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea presented a detained American student before the media on Monday in Pyongyang, where he tearfully apologized for attempting to steal a political banner — at the behest, he said, of...

    • Posted February 29, 2016
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  • North Korea arrests US student, cites ‘hostile act’

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Friday announced the arrest of a university student from Ohio for what it called a “hostile act” orchestrated by the American government to undermine the authoritarian nation. In language...

    • Posted January 22, 2016
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