In a bizarre wake of events, North Korea has sentenced a US student to 15 years of rigorous hard labour. 

The alleged crime committed by him was to STEAL a propaganda poster and trying to flee the country.

Mr. Otto Frederick Warmbier, a student from the University of Virginia has been on a trip to North Korean capital Pyongyang, through a Chinese traveling company and all went fine until the moment he was about to board a flight back home on January 2nd, 2016. The checking officials over there have halted him and placed him under arrest for the charges that he has committed a grave crime against the country and its regime. 

Apparently, he is alleged to bring the propaganda poster to the US's CIA division for plotting against the North Korean regime.

 Mr. Warmbier has been arrested on January 2nd and has been sentenced after an unfair 1-hour trail.

He broke down and cried in front of the media where he kept on pleading for mercy saying " I'm just a human and I have a brother and a sister to get back to. How did I commit the biggest mistake of my life?" 

Mr. Warmbier was a Dean's list student at his university and a very famed soccer player back home.

The deputy spokesperson Mark Toner of the US has issued a public statement urging the US citizens against travelling to North Korea and has asked for the DPRK(Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea) to release Mr Warmbier on humanitarian grounds.

The US is trying to do its best to bring its citizen back home and this might be a little bit difficult with the North Korean government trying to

The country of North Korea is still in at war with the US even after its defeat in the Korean war against the south and has been blaming the US for it ever since. Tensions are at rising with all of such situations at the helm.

Courtesy : CNN  

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