Tapes from the dark side contains descriptions of violence and sexuality.

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As an American citizen, detained for severe crimes in the DPR Korea, I had feared that I may receive torture or mental pressure.

That was my totally wrong thinking. I have been given the most humanitarian treatment in a hotel-class guesthouse with no torture or mental pressure.

I have been very impressed by the Korean government's humanitarian treatment of severe criminals like myself

and of their very fair and square legal procedures in the DPR Korea.

I am the most ashamed I have been in my life for committing a crime in such a friendly country,

and I have no idea what sort of penalty I may face.

But I am begging to the Korean people and government for my forgiveness.

I think everyone has a bit of a fascination with the dark side.

I think it's something that everyone secretly longs for and wants.

He's strapped to the stretcher, moving around violently. He's got a feeding tube, and his bottom teeth looked like they had taken a pair of pliers and rearranged them.

The dark side. Despite his German-sounding

His German-sounding name, Otto Warmbier was an all-American boy.

He was also Jewish on his mother's side and was an active member

of a Jewish campus organization when he was in college. He also visited Israel on a birthright trip

in 2014. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, went to school at Wyoming High School in Wyoming,

Ohio, and would later go on to attend the

University of Virginia pursuing a double major in commerce and economics. Otto's middle name was

Frederick after his father, Fred Wormbeer, who was a businessman, and also a proud Republican.

The stars and stripes were displayed outside the

warm beer home, a rather lavish five-bedroom house that's currently estimated at $1.2 million.

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