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US Tourist Gets 15 Years Jail Term In North Korea. by Uchddaniel(m): 10:37am On Mar 16, 2016
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.
Otto Warmbier, a University of Virginia undergraduate, was convicted and sentenced in a one-hour trial in North Korea's Supreme Court.North Korea sentences US tourist to 15 years in prison
He was charged with subversion under Article 60 of North Korea's criminal code. The court held that he had committed a crime "pursuant to the U.S. government's hostile policy toward (the North), in a bid to impair the unity of its people after entering it as a tourist."
North Korea regularly accuses Washington and Seoul of sending spies to overthrow its government to enable the U.S.-backed South Korean government to take control of the Korean Peninsula.....

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Re: US Tourist Gets 15 Years Jail Term In North Korea. by freeDR(m): 10:52am On Mar 16, 2016
Perhaps it would have been more correct if the media described him as a suspected spy. A busted spy under the guise of tourism.

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Re: US Tourist Gets 15 Years Jail Term In North Korea. by Uchddaniel(m): 10:56am On Mar 16, 2016
Or Maybe a student spy....lolz. tnx @ freeDR

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