The average daily wind speed in August has been around 12 km/h, thatâs the equivalent to about 7 mph, or 6 knots. In recent years the maximum sustained wind speed has reached 69 km/h, thatâs the equivalent of around 43 mph, or 37 knots.
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 is the third western citizen known to be currently held in the isolated state. A South Korean-born Canadian pastor was arrested in North Korea last year and given a life sentence for subversion. Earlier this month, a Korean-American man told CNN in Pyongyang that he was being held by the state for spying.