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EllieBC

(2,960 posts)
Fri Jun 23, 2017, 10:18 AM Jun 2017

Otto Warmbiers family kept his Jewishness under wraps while North Korea held him hostage

WASHINGTON — The family of Otto Warmbier, the American college student who died on Monday, days after his release from 17 months of captivity in North Korea, was advised to keep his Jewish background and identity concealed while officials tried to negotiate his release.

That was because the North Korean justification for his imprisonment centered on a dubious claim that Warmbier had stolen a propaganda poster in a Pyongyang hotel lobby on orders from the Friendship United Methodist Church in Wyoming, Ohio, to bring it back “as a trophy” in exchange for a used car worth $10,000.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/otto-warmbiers-family-kept-his-jewishness-under-wraps-while-north-korea-held-him-hostage/

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Otto Warmbiers family kept his Jewishness under wraps while North Korea held him hostage (Original Post) EllieBC Jun 2017 OP
Don't understand. Why would the revelation that he's Jewish marybourg Jun 2017 #1
Because the dear leader was wrong and it would've been an embarrassment to prove him so . EllieBC Jun 2017 #2
Hmmm. nt. marybourg Jun 2017 #3
I'm sickened and heartbroken by the murder of this young man. I'm also angry at those blaming him grossproffit Jun 2017 #4

marybourg

(12,540 posts)
1. Don't understand. Why would the revelation that he's Jewish
Fri Jun 23, 2017, 12:25 PM
Jun 2017

play into the claim that he obeys the orders of a Christian church? I would think it would, if it has any probative value at all, serve to undermine that claim.

EllieBC

(2,960 posts)
2. Because the dear leader was wrong and it would've been an embarrassment to prove him so .
Fri Jun 23, 2017, 08:02 PM
Jun 2017

And that would have allegedly put Warmbier in greater danger might have been the thinking.

Otto was very active in Hillel. Jewish =/= Christian.

grossproffit

(5,591 posts)
4. I'm sickened and heartbroken by the murder of this young man. I'm also angry at those blaming him
Fri Jun 23, 2017, 11:56 PM
Jun 2017

for his being murdered.

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