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North Korea is a strange place. Most Americans know little about this country, but after the shocking death of US citizen Otto Warmbier, North Korea has come into the spotlight. Find out other shocking facts about North Korea that will leave you speechless!


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Otto Frederick Warmbier was a US college student who was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in January 2016 for trying to steal a propaganda poster.

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While the punishment was harsh, if Otto had been a local, North Korea punishes not just the person involved, but has a “three generations of punishment rule”. If a person violates the law and is sent to prison camp, the grandparents, parents and children of that individual are sent with them.

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You can be sentenced for all sorts of crimes in North Korea. Thousands of North Koreans faced six-months in prison camps for not being sufficiently upset when Kim Jong-Il died.

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Porn is prohibited in North Korea and you can be executed for this offense.

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Otto Warmbier fell into a coma a month after being imprisoned, as a result of botulism, a rare bacterial infection, and a sleeping pill, according to North Korean authorities, even though US physicians doubted this claim.

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North Korean have claimed a lot of interesting “facts”, with their scientists confirming in 2012 that unicorns are in fact real.

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Official records also show that Kim Jong-Il learned to walk by age three weeks and talk by eight weeks. The first time he ever picked up a golf club he shot 11 holes-in-one and a 38 under par round. The first time he went bowling, he also scored a perfect 300.

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Otto Warmbier was one of 16 US citizens detained by North Korea since 1996, with three still in custody.

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Those detained in North Korea are held in the roughly 16 work camps in North Korea, where there are over 200,000 prisoners.

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