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US student Otto Warmbier given hard labour in North Korea. Read more about sharing. US student Otto Warmbier has been given 15 years hard labour in North Korea for crimes against the state. Warmbier, 21, was arrested for trying to steal a propaganda sign from a hotel while visiting North Korea in January.
Warmbier, a University of Virginia undergraduate, was convicted and sentenced for subversion in a one-hour trial in North Korea's Supreme Court. The sentencing took place weeks after authorities presented him to media and he tearfully confessed that he had tried to steal a propaganda banner.