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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.
CCTV shows the University of Virginia student entering a staff-only part of the hotel, which towers up from an island in the middle of the Taedong River. Warmbier was charged with subversion after removing the poster which reads 'Let's arm ourselves strongly with Kim Jong Il patriotism'.