re: North Korea sentences American student 15 years hard labor

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Well I feel the US should show NK you do not treat US citizens like that. Extract the kid and bring him home.... Then throw him in a jail here for 5 years for acting stupid abroad.

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In a tearful statement made before his trial, Warmbier told a gathering of reporters in Pyongyang he tried to take the banner as a trophy for the mother of a friend who said she wanted to put it up in her church.
He said he was offered a used car worth $10,000 if he could get a banner and was also told that if he was detained and didn't return, $200,000 would be paid to his mother in the form of a charitable donation.

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