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Related: About this forumOtto 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/
marybourg
(12,634 posts)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
(3,041 posts)And that would have allegedly put Warmbier in greater danger might have been the thinking.
Otto was very active in Hillel. Jewish =/= Christian.
marybourg
(12,634 posts)grossproffit
(5,591 posts)for his being murdered.