North Korea sentenced a South Korean-born American citizen to 10 years of hard labor for subversion and espionage.<br />Prosecutors originally sought 15 years for Kim Jong Chul for committing "offenses in a scheme to overthrow the socialist system of the DPRK," according to state-run news agency KCNA.<br />Kim's defense team noted that "he is old and may repent of his faults" in an effort to have his sentence commuted.<br />Kim becomes the second American to receive a hard labor sentence from North Korea.<br />In March, University of Virginia student Otto Frederick Warmbier was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for allegedly removing a political banner from a Pyongyang hotel.
