The American college student, Otto Frederick Warmbier, who is detained in North Korea since January 2 appeared in a state-sponsored news conference, confessing to severe crime of trying to steal a political banner from hotel.
Warmbier, 21, is a third year undergrad student at University of Virginia and had entered the country on tourist visa.
In the conference, he appeared to confess to his "severe crimes" against the regime in an Associated Press video of the event at People's Palace of Culture in Pyongyang.
"I made the worst mistake of my life," he said while weeping and pleading dramatically.
He was arrested at airport just before he was to leave the country after five-day tour. The trip was organized by a China-based travel company
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According to his confession, the church also said that they would pay his mother $200,000 if he gets arrested while stealing. But now, because he mentioned the church name, the money would not be paid, he said.
Allegations against him also state that he is a member of secretive Z society at his university, which North Korea says has ties with CIA.
"I apologize to each and every one of the millions of the Korean people, and I beg that you see how I was used and manipulated. I was used by the United States administration like many before."
"I never, never should have allowed myself to be lured by the United States administration to commit a crime in this country. I wish that the United States administration never manipulate people like myself in the future to commit crimes against foreign countries. I entirely beg you, the people and government of the DPRK, for your forgiveness. Please! I made the worst mistake of my life!"
It is not clear if he was forced to read out the statements, in which he also said that he was thankful to North Korea's "humanitarian treatment of severe criminals like myself."
North Korean detainees usually have to go through these "confessions" before being
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I urge the DPRK government to consider his youth and make an important humanitarian gesture by allowing him to return to his loved
Blaine Harden, former national correspondent and writer for the New York Times, delivers an agonizing and heartbreaking story of one man’s extremely conflicted life in a labor camp and an endeavor of escaping this place he grew up in. This man’s name is Shin Dong-hyuk. Together, Blaine Harden and Shin Dong-hyuk tell us the story of this man’s imprisonment and escape into South Korea and eventually, the United States, from North Korea. This biography that takes place from 1982-2011, reports to its readers on what is really going on in “one of the world’s darkest nations” (back cover of the book), that is run under a communist state and totalitarian dictatorship that was lead by Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il, and currently lead by Kim-Jong un. In Escape from Camp 14, Shin shows us the adaptation of his life and how one man can truly evolve from an animal, into a real human being.
Harden, Blaine. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West. New York: Viking, 2012. Print.
unjustly put into jail. He accepts going to jail even though he was put in jail
Niebuhr, Reinhold (1892-1971), American Protestant theologian, whose social doctrines profoundly influenced American theological and political thought.
for doing it, he asked the couple to release the half part of the hostages that
Theologian, ethicist, and political analyst, Reinhold Niebuhr was a towering figure of twentiethcentury religious thought. He is well known and is appreciated for many reasons among American theologians. Niebuhr had a very strong opinion and much to say when it came down to man and violence in regards to peace and war. Although he thought of himself as a preacher and social activist, the influence of his theological thought on the field of social ethics and on society made him a significant figure.
Database Center for North Korean Human Rights. "Prisoners in North Korea Today." Detention Facilities in North Korea Today (2011): 173+. NKDB. Web. 8 Apr. 2014. .
They gonna have to step up. We cain’t let them Communists take over Vetnam, ‘cause all them other countries will follow. But you cain’t trust anything the guv’ment says. When my Tommy died, they sent some major who tells me some shit about how Tommy had been shot in the back by a sniper and died instantly. Talked about how them Cong was cowardly shootin’ a man in the back. But when they shipped his body home, I went to the funeral home. They’d closed the casket, and I called that wimply little man in that shiny suit to open it up. He told me the guv’ment had told him to close the casket. Well, I raised holy hell until he agreed to open it up. By damn, when he opened that thang up, I could see Tommy’s whole face had been blowed off. Shot in the back my ass. I seen men killed in Korea, and it ain’t easy. But I didn’t expect to see my own son like that. I thought maybe it wasn’t him, so I rolled up his sleeve and seen it was his tattoos all right. I sat down there and cried like a baby. I was cryin’ for my dead boy and then for a guv’ment that’d rather tell a lie than the truth.”
When asked what crime he commited, Ampleforth says “I allowed the word ‘God’ to remain at the end of a line”(Orwell 291). There is also public hangings, these show the public what will happen to them if they oppose the government. Unfortunately, North Korea handles criticism of their government in a similar way. According to Business Insider, “About 200,000 people are currently imprisoned in these camps, while some 400,000 people have died in them”(Szoldra). Lim Hye-jin, a former guard who defected, claims “We were manipulated not to feel any sympathy for prisoners”(Broomfield).
”(Truman 12) Yet again, another instance of the UN defending a nation in need, correcting problems that need to be fixed before it was too late. The US. along with other nations, believed war could be terminated if the attacks in Korea were stopped as soon as possible. The free nations have learned that history tends to repeat itself if nothing
not go his way so the consequences did exist and he had to pay for the
retried and the interrogation, with the confession, was not used against him and with the
“Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely,” by P.J. O’Rourke, represents how being clean can impact life. Ignaz Semmelweis believed it as well. Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis was a Hungarian obstetrician who presented his ideas to the medical community in the mid-1800s. With degrees in midwifery, surgical training, and diagnostic and statistical methods, Ignaz scored a job easily at a hospital in Vienna while taking care of a wife and two children. Semmelweis uncovered the relationship between maternal death and puerperal fever, took many responsible risks to introduce his concept the medical society, and illuminated the importance to simply wash one's hands.
Thus, began another exchange of words between the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, and the dictator of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Kim
"I regret putting so much time and emotion into one person, when that one person should have been me."