Details Emerge About US Student Detained in North Korea

An American student detained in North Korea for alleged “anti-state” activities is being described by his fellow travel partners as a “typical tourist.”   North Korea announced Friday it detained Otto Warmbier, a University of Virginia undergrad student, for the unspecified “hostile” acts, and was conducting an investigation.   The 21-year-old Warmbier had entered Pyongyang with the China-based Young Pioneers Tours company, which regularly takes foreigners to the isolated...

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