Tearful US student paraded before cameras in North Korea

North Korea has presented a detained American student before the media in Pyongyang, where he tearfully apologised for attempting to steal a political banner.

Tearful US student paraded before cameras in North Korea

North Korea has presented a detained American student before the media in Pyongyang, where he tearfully apologised for attempting to steal a political banner.

Otto Warmbier said he tried to take the banner from a staff-only section of the hotel where he had been staying for a member of a church back home who wanted it as a "trophy".

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