{"id":421754,"date":"2017-01-22T23:04:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T19:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/?p=421754"},"modified":"2017-01-23T00:08:51","modified_gmt":"2017-01-22T22:08:51","slug":"status-of-american-student-sentenced-to-15-years-of-hard-labor-in-north-korea-unknown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/fr\/2017\/01\/status-of-american-student-sentenced-to-15-years-of-hard-labor-in-north-korea-unknown\/","title":{"rendered":"Status of American student sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in North Korea unknown"},"content":{"rendered":"

$\"NewsHub\"$ CINCINNATI \u2013 There\u2019s been little public word about what has happened to an American college student detained by North Korea, as a new administration takes over one year later amid deep U. S. concerns about the hostile country\u2019s nuclear arms and missile development.
North Korea announced last Jan. 22 it had detained Otto Warmbier, a 21-year-old University of Virginia student from suburban Cincinnati, for alleged anti-state crime. Warmbier was sentenced in March to 15 years in prison at hard labor after a televised public confession to trying to steal a propaganda banner.
A range of U. S. authorities has urged his release on humanitarian grounds.
The State Department says it continues to actively work for his earliest possible release, calling his punishment \u201cunduly harsh\u201d and that it\u2019s clear such detainees are used for political purposes.<\/p>\n

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