N.Korea: US student cries & admits to being "severe criminal" during press conf.

An American student who has been detained in Pyongyang since January 2016 was presented to media by North Korean authorities today (29 February).

It's the first time that Otto Warmbier has been seen by foreign media since North Korea announced his arrest via the state news agency on 22 January.

North Korean authorities claimed the University of Virginia undergraduate had been detained for "perpetrating a hostile act against the DPRK (North Korea) at the tacit connivance of the US government and under its manipulation".

While addressing the media and members of Pyongyang's diplomatic community, 21-year-old Warmbier acknowledged and apologised for the alleged crime, which involved the theft of a political slogan from a staff-only section of the hotel where he had been staying.

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