Jack Laurence

He would be placed in the Yanggangkando International Hotel.

What's become infamous about this particular hotel is its apparent hidden flaw.

This is strictly off-limits to anyone who isn't hotel staff.

In fact, when you jump on the elevator, you notice that a button for the fifth floor is missing.

There are many videos on YouTube depicting people getting off at other floors and taking the stairs to see just what's on floor five.

Maybe it doesn't light up.

Let's see what it's like.

Apparently Otto would also be curious about this hidden floor.

So one night after a few beers and New Year's festivities, he would make his way to the missing floor five, where he would allegedly steal a North Korean propaganda poster from the wall.

On the 2nd of January 2016, he was arrested at the airport and would be eventually sentenced to 15 years hard labour.

Shortly after his sentencing, he would end up in a coma from an unconfirmed cause.

Finally, in January of 2017, he was released back to the United States, where he would sadly never regain consciousness and his life support was switched off.

Chris says that he and his group were not actually in this particular hotel, and even though had consumed their fair share of alcohol, in the back of their minds they always knew where they were.

So we were actually put in a different hotel than that one.

I think that's the big skyscraper looking one.

We were put in a hotel, which I believe they used in some kind of Olympics that they did one time.

We weren't told really that we couldn't go here and there.

Do you want to see that hotel seemed to be, it was all right, but it was, you know, just a basic hotel, but yeah, there was no, there was no don't go to floor 54 or anything like that.

No.

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