Yeah BS. They work for North Korea as a fishing expedition. They purposely misled those kids into telling them it was safe and then baiting them by saying “The country your parents don’t want you to go to”. This was all a scam, everything about it. The “theft” of the poster, Warmbier didn’t steal anything. His friends and family said he wasn’t that kind of guy, the video the North Koreans showed is all blurry, we never see his face. He was set up and probably told if he didn’t admit to it he would be executed - which they did anyway.
Ottos “confession”
“He talked animatedly about the “severe crime” that had put him there: trying to take a propaganda banner for someone back home, supposedly in return for a used car and to impress a semi-secret society he wanted to join, and all under the supposed direction of the U.S. government.”
Yeah, he wasn’t told what to say.