North Korean labour camps: a harrowing reality but US student could be spared

Experts believe Otto Warmbier will avoid the worst but stories abound of camps where many die after working 16-hour days and subsisting on handfuls of foodThe distraught pleadings of the American college student sentenced to 15 years of hard labour in a prison in North Korea for “crimes against the state” are sobering when considering the details of what such punishment normally entails.The pariah state ruled three days ago that Otto Warmbier, 21, from Cincinnati, Ohio, was guilty of