US Student Held in North Korea Apologizes

Описание: (29 Feb 2016) FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4025628

North Korea presented a detained American student before the media on Monday in Pyongyang, where he tearfully apologized for attempting to steal a political banner — at the behest, he said, of a member of a church back home who wanted it as a "trophy" — from a staff-only section of the hotel where he had been staying.
North Korea announced in late January it had arrested Otto Warmbier, a 21-year-old University of Virginia undergraduate student. It said that after entering the country as a tourist he committed an anti-state crime with "the tacit connivance of the U.S. government and under its manipulation."
The student's meeting with the press in Pyongyang, organized by North Korean authorities, comes as the U.N. Security Council is expected to adopt fresh sanctions in the coming days against the country over its fourth nuclear test in January and a long-range rocket launch earlier this month that utilized banned ballistic missile technology.
Warmbier, wearing a blazer and necktie, tearfully expressed remorse for what he did and said he hopes North Korea will "allow me to return home."

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