North Korea Sentences Former Virginia Man To 10 Years Of Hard Labor
Source: Washington Post
By Anna Fifield April 29 at 1:43 AM
TOKYO North Korea has sentenced a former Virginia man to 10 years in prison with hard labor for subversion, China's Xinhua news agency reported Friday, in the latest case involving an American being detained by Kim Jong Uns regime.
Kim Dong-chul, who was born in South Korea but became an American citizen in 1987, was sentenced for subversion of the DPRK social system and espionage activities," Xinhua news agency reported, using the official abbreviation for North Korea.
Kims sentence was, however, more lenient than the 15 years with hard labor handed down to Otto Warmbier, a 21-year-old University of Virginia student convicted of subversion in March after the court found he had committed a crime pursuant to the U.S. governments hostile policy" towards North Korea.
North Korea has in recent years developed a habit of detaining American citizens and using them as bargaining chips in negotiations with the United States, its avowed enemy. All detainees were eventually released after high-profile Americans, including former presidents Clinton and Carter, traveled to Pyongyang visits portrayed in the states media as a sign of North Koreas strength.
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SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Nyan
(1,192 posts)I don't know why...
Unicorn
(424 posts)Now we have to endure his family guilting us into having to get the poor innocent guy back from from the crazy cult regime(they think their leader is God and he rants on TV for hours threatening to nuke countries, etc.) Jim Jones used to make his followers listen to his rants for hours and so did Hitler.
Let's all go there and convince his cult to stop worshiping him and go for the Christian god - even though they've had propaganda their whole lives to turn people in who do that.
Nihil
(13,508 posts)Doesn't actually kill them outright but keeps them out of circulation long enough
that they hopefully will not breed and pass their insanity on ...
sofa king
(10,857 posts)This is the second Virginian to be sentenced this year.
http://www.c-ville.com/uva-student-sentenced-prison-north-korea/
Fine. You ain't gettin' no more moonshine or weed. And no more bear hunting fer ya, neither!