North Korea Convicts US College Student of Subversion

North Korea has sentenced an American college student to 15 years of hard labor for committing crimes against the state. Otto Warmbier was arrested in North Korea in January as he was trying to leave the country after visiting with a tour group. During an appearance before a group of foreign and domestic journalists in Pyongyang last month, the 21-year-old student at the University of Virginia admitted to removing a banner with a political slogan from a staff-only area of the hotel...

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