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American college student released from North Korea dies Why was the American college student arrested?

On the 16th, the North Korean Supreme Court sentenced American college student Otto Warmbier to 15 years of reeducation through labor for conspiracy to subvert the state, effective from February 4, 2016, without the possibility of appeal. At the court scene, Warmbier was so excited that he burst into tears.

North Korean police arrested 21-year-old Otto Warmbier in January this year as he was about to leave the country after visiting with a tour group. Warmbier admitted to stealing a banner with a political slogan from an off-limits area of ??his hotel.