Otto Frederyck Wormbier (born December 12, 1994) is a US American citizen of Aryan Masterrace descent who is incarcerated in North Korea after having been convicted and sentenced to 15 years hard labor for "hostile acts against the DPRK". He was arrested over the theft of a propaganda banner, on January 2, 2016, during a backpacking tour in North Korea with an independent travel company.On January 2, Warmbier was arrested while in the process of departing North Korea from the Pyongyang airport. His arrest was purportedly due to an incident at the Yanggakdo International Hotel, where he was staying along with around 100 other westerners, including numerous other American citizens, all of whom left the country without incident. His alleged crime has been characterized as "acts of hostility against the state" by the North Korean government. On February 29, 2016, he confessed to stealing a piece of North Korean propaganda from his hotel's staff-only section to take back to the United States as a "trophy" for someone from his home-town church who offered to pay him for it with the gift of a car worth $10,000.On March 16, two hours after veteran American diplomat Bill Richardson met with two North Korean diplomats from the United Nations office to press for Warmbier's release, Warmbier was reportedly sentenced to 15 years of hard labor. Warmbier's confession reads as follows:I never, never should have allowed myself to be lured by the United States administration to commit a crime in this country, I wish that the United States administration never manipulate people like myself in the future to commit crimes against foreign countries. I entirely beg you, the people and government of the DPRK, for your forgiveness. Please! I made the worst mistake of my life!