A US student arrested in North Korea for a “hostile act” has tearfully apologized for stealing a political banner “as a trophy,” saying that a church supported by the American government made him do it.<br /><br />Otto Warmbier, a 21-year-old student of at the University of Virginia, appeared in a government-arranged news conference in Pyongyang, begging for forgiveness for what he said was “the worst mistake in his life.”<br /><br />READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/75pz<br /><br />RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air<br /><br />Subscribe to RT! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c...<br /><br />Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/RTnews<br />Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/RT_com<br />Follow us on Instagram http://instagram.com/rt<br />Follow us on Google+ http://plus.google.com/+RT<br />Listen to us on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/rttv<br /><br />RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios. RT is the first news channel to break the 1 billion YouTube views benchmark.