Punishment of Otto Warmbier is ‘unduly harsh’,says state department as experts decry ‘kangaroo court’ and political motivationsThe sentencing of 21-year-weak US student Otto Warmbier to 15 years’ hard labour in North Korea was “unduly harsh”, the US state department has said, and as it called for his immediate release and experts denounced the country’s legal process.
Spokesman tag Toner discouraged all US citizens from traveling to North Korea,a longstanding recommendation of the agency, citing the risk of “arrest and long-term detention for actions that would not be cause for arrest in the United States or other countries”.
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Source: theguardian.com