American student to do time in North Korea

AN American student has been sentenced to prison time in North Korea
American student Otto Warmbier, center, is escorted at the Supreme Court in Pyongyang, North Korea Picture: AP Photo/Jon Chol JinAmerican student Otto Warmbier, center, is escorted at the Supreme Court in Pyongyang, North Korea Picture: AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin
American student Otto Warmbier, center, is escorted at the Supreme Court in Pyongyang, North Korea Picture: AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin

Otto Warmbier was escorted from the Supreme Court in Pyongyang, North Korea yesterday.

North Korea’s highest court sentenced Warmbier, a 21-year-old University of Virginia undergraduate student, from Wyoming, Ohio, to 15 years in prison with hard labour for subversion.

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He allegedly attempted to steal a propaganda banner from a restricted area of his hotel at the request of an acquaintance who wanted to hang it in her church.