Posted on 06/19/2017 8:18:08 PM PDT by pboyington
Otto Warmbier died today.
Otto Warmbier was murdered by North Korea and by its brutal regime, led by the despotic maniac Kim Jong-un.
The 23 year old University of Virginia student, who was arrested and imprisoned in North Korea 17 months ago for stealing a poster, had been released by the neo-Stalinist regime last week and flown to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, where he passed away today at 2:20 PM after reportedly languishing in a coma for a year.
While preparing to depart North Korea on January 2, 2016, Warmbier was detained after stealing a North Korean propaganda poster off a hotel wall.
On March 16, 2016, Otto Warmbier was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for committing what he thought was a harmless college prank.
Mr. Warmbier appears to have been in a coma for more than a year, after either being severely beaten to the point it caused irreversible brain damage, or given drugs that induced a heart attack, causing irreversible brain damage, or both.
Last week, when he was released by North Korea, they weren’t doing it for humanitarian reasons – far from it. They turned Otto Warmbier over to US State Department authorities because they didn’t want the young student to die in North Korea. They released their political prisoner Otto Warmbier because they knew they had murdered him and somehow believed their actions would show the civilized world their ‘good will.’ They acted as if they wanted to cleanse their consciences; the only problem being that sociopaths don’t have consciences.
North Korea is incapable of humanitarian actions and its ruler, Kim Jong-un, is a blight on humanity.
While most of the blame for young Otto’s death can be laid at the doorstep of North Korea, some of it can also be laid at the doorstep of the Obama administration and the State Department led by John Kerry. In a nutshell, from the moment Mr. Warmbier was detained, then sentenced and then imprisoned, President Obama and John Kerry did nothing to not only learn about Otto’s whereabouts and condition, but to attempt to garner his release.
The Kerry State Department’s advice to the Warmbiers was to remain silent, as if silence was ever an anecdote to deal with psychotics and evil.
Thankfully, the Trump administration and the Tillerson State Department conduct diplomacy with a sharpened bayonet, rather than Kerry’s Pier One candles and James Taylor sing-a-longs.
Upon learning of Mr. Warmbier’s passing today, the President appeared visibly upset. When asked about options to punish North Korea, the President stated, “It’s a brutal regime and we’ll be able to handle it.”
The options to punish North Korea for the murder of Otto Warmbier are varied, including possible covert military action. Besides completely decapitating the regime in Pyongyang, there is also the course of action that includes sinking a North Korean submarine once it exits its home port. The US would take no responsibility for the operation, but the message would be sent. Kill an American, you lose a submarine. Do it again and the ante goes up threefold.
I believe the President will act and act he must. Yes, there are three other US citizens detained in North Korea. But, US military action cannot be held hostage by any nation. We learned that lesson in 1979.
In the meantime, if you are a religious person, you might want to say a prayer for the soul of Otto Warmbier.
I say cut off the Chinese banks that North Korea uses for economic support. Build a wall between North and South Korea. If conditions cause a mass exodus, the wall will prevent escape into South Korea. The exodus will be into China. That is very bad for China. Make China aware that consequences for North Korea are consequences for them. China, who supplies 90% of North Korea’s food, will step up pressure with North Korea to reign in their manic behavior.
Thankyou for an intelligent post on this matter. Too many Americans go overseas thinking that their citizenship is a guaranty of immunity from consequence. I have seen this in Eastern Europe and in the Levant.
Helpful safety tip: obey their laws, mind your manners, use please and thankyou liberally.
It appears the link should be:
http://usdefensewatch.com/2017/06/the-murder-of-otto-warmbier/
I read elsewhere he was traveling to Hong Kong for an 18 month study abroad program and stopped in NK for a tour with the Young Pioneers group.
Damn I wasn’t expecting to read this. Sad. John Kerry I have always had a bad feeling about that man and I think he’s a very cold person. 15 years hard labor for taking down a freaking poster is horrific enough but returning the guy in such a state @#$ we can’t let that go unpunished.
because his “family needed the money.”
I missed that. His family lives about 10 miles from me and they don’t need the money.
Someone else said it: As tragic and horrible as this is, you have to be an idiot to visit a hostile country run by a murderous dictator and engage in ANY “pranks”.
Would be a shame to start a war over a kid stupid-enough to go on a “college outing” to North Korea. I have no “sorry” feelings for this kind of stupididity.
Exactly right. At least he was a young single guy getting a thrill. That dumba Daniel Pearl left behind a wife and unborn son when he played James Bond.
What we are being told is BS, and I am convinced that Otto was an “asset” for someone. Just read that he was an active member of Hillel at UVA - the Christian bit seems to be cover for the trip to NKA via China. The PTB want a world war one way or the other, and they won’t stop until it goes down in Flames.
Details. Details.
Yeah you’re right. Pshaw.
Freegards
There was no injury to his head.He hung himself and was caught but was brain dead.He was sent home -Rex and Dennis- helped.He came home alive.His parents and Family said goodbye and pulled the plug.They Thanked President Trump for giving them
their Baby back.
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