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North Korea appears to have agreed with Donald Trump in blaming Barack Obama’s administration for the curious case of Otto Warmbier, the American convict who was sentenced to 15 years hard labour in North Korea for the attempted theft of a patriotic poster.
RT cites sources in the North Korean government as saying that under Obama, the United States never once asked for Warmbier’s release.
According to a North Korean spokesman,
According to reports from the United States, the America student sentenced to 15 years hard labour in North Korea for stealing a political poster has died in a US hospital.
Otto Warmbier was released early into his sentence shortly after former basketball star Dennis Rodman arrived in Pyongyang on a good will mission.
Rodman has developed a close friendship with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un.
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(ANTIMEDIA) —A short trip to North Korea that became a 17-month imprisonment is now over for Otto Warmbier, who was recently medically evacuated by the U.S. State Department while in a coma. He was serving a 15-year hard labor sentence for swiping a poster from a Pyongyang hotel.
Remember the American student, Otto Warmbier, 21, who was found guilty of what the North Korean government called “subversion.”
This was Warmbier’s weeping video during a North Korean sentencing…
Moments ago North Korea released Otto Warmbier, who was serving a 15-year prison term with hard labor for alleged anti-state acts.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made the announcement on Tuesday, that came as former NBA player Dennis Rodman was visiting Pyongyang.
Tillerson’s statement…
Hours after Dennis Rodman, former NBA star and self-professed good friend of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un landed in Pyongyang, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson confirmed that Otto Warmbier, a US citizen being detained in North Korea will be released and allowed to travel to the United States.
In February of 2016, Warmbier who was visited North Korea as part of a tour group confessed to stealing a political poster and was sentenced to 15 years hard labour.
However, according to Rex Tillerson,
A US citizen of Korean background has just been arrested in North Korea. This is the fourth such incident in a fairly short period of time.
Every year, North Korea receives thousands of visitors, most on special guided tours. Most visits are free of any incidents. However, North Korea does have strict rules. If you break them, don’t expect a slap on the wrist.
1. Kim Dong Chul
(ZHE) A third US citizen has been arrested and remains in custody in North Korea, according to South Korean news agency Yonhap.
