North Korea puts US student forced labor

pyongyang - An American student who has been held since January, in North Korea, was sentenced to fifteen years' hard labor. According to Pyongyang, he,, crimes committed against the state ''.

The 21-year-old Otto Warmbier was arrested when he visited the Stalinist country. Students of the University of Virginia had entered the country under the government,, to destroy the unity of the country . He was out of his hotel stole a flag with a propaganda slogan on it.

The student has known the theft and said he was trying to steal the flag in command. He called it the biggest mistake of his life, writes the BBC Wednesday of. It is unclear whether he made the confession under duress.