有CIA背景的教會鼓勵他去偷標語，作為一種加入該組織的表現。 事成之後給$1萬+一輛舊汽車。 事敗之後給他20萬。
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Warmbier
Warmbier's confession also stated that he had plotted to steal the poster at the behest of a Methodist church in his hometown and the Z Society, a secret society at the University of Virginia that he wished to join, both of which he said were allied with the Central Intelligence Agency. These claims, which Time magazine called "fanciful" and "implausible," were disputed by both the church and the Z Society. The New York Times remarked that "the unlikely nature of the details suggested the script had been written by Mr. Warmbier's North Korean interrogators". U.S. negotiator Mickey Bergman later stated that Warmbier's family were advised to maintain silence about his Jewish heritage while he was under arrest, as negotiators believed that publicly repudiating Warmbier's purported affiliation with a Methodist church would antagonize the North Korean regime
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.
https://scholarship.law.uc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1512
In one of his most peculiar statements, Otto said he had brought his “quietest boots, the best
for sneaking” to commit his crime and repeatedly asserted he had been the “political victim” of the “United
States’ hostile policies against the DPR Korea.” Full Press Conference, supra note 6. Otto offered another
ostensible explanation for his transgression: he stated that if he was detained and could not return from
the DPRK, the Friendship United Methodist Church would pay his mother $200,000 to fund his younger
siblings' college expenses. Id.
Sung-Yoon Lee, a professor of Korean studies at Tufts University and an expert on North Korea and its treatment of detainees, testified that in Korean culture, custom demands the eldest child “make great sacrifice[s]” for his younger siblings and subsidize their college tuition. T
