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    I was so lucky to avoid Otto Warmbier’s fate in North Korea | Alex Hoban

    I travelled with the same gung ho, alcohol-fuelled tour company that Warmbier did. His death made me realise how naive we were about Pyongyang
    by Alex Hoban Jun 21, 2017 4 minutes
    US student Otto Warmbier released by North Korea

    The horrific death of the American student Otto Warmbier after 17 months’ imprisonment in North Korea has put my own years of mischief in the secretive country into sharp focus.

    Warmbier, a 22-year-old from the University of Virginia, was arrested in January 2016 and sentenced to 15 years’ hard labour for allegedly attempting to steal a propaganda poster from the hotel he was staying in. He disappeared for more than a year, only to resurface last week when he was flown to the US, suffering an unresponsive coma that led to his death on 19 June.

    For those with only an arms-length awareness of North Korea, his tale is

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