As a follow-up to our thread on the Otto Warmbier story, we want to explain the context around Korean-US relations, which likely shaped his trial and conviction: a thread 🧵 about post-colonial feudalism in the 21st century.https://t.co/dOunk49jhd— ProleWiki.org (EN) (@prolewiki) June 6, 2023
The fifth floor of the hotel is sealed off (the elevator doesn't stop there), although we're not sure why exactly. At his trial however, Otto said he took the poster from an employee-only area on his own floor.
The charges brought against him were of collusion with a foreign state (the US), he was sentenced for subversion. The video of the trial should be online as many western media sources used the footage in their own reporting, but I haven't been able to find it. In his confession and closing statement, he said that his church (Methodists, if that makes a difference) and fraternity wanted a trophy from his trip.
The fifth floor of the hotel is sealed off (the elevator doesn't stop there), although we're not sure why exactly. At his trial however, Otto said he took the poster from an employee-only area on his own floor.
The charges brought against him were of collusion with a foreign state (the US), he was sentenced for subversion. The video of the trial should be online as many western media sources used the footage in their own reporting, but I haven't been able to find it. In his confession and closing statement, he said that his church (Methodists, if that makes a difference) and fraternity wanted a trophy from his trip.