The tiny island where pleaded guilty to one count of espionage has a dark and bloody history which involved the deaths of thousands during a brutal battle in between American and Japanese forces.
Towards the end of that battle, thousands of the isolated Japanese soldiers and civilians remaining in Saipan, chose to take their own lives by leaping from a cliff in the northern section of the island.
Assange's legal team were able to negotiate with the Department of Justice to use a courtroom in Saipan, located in the Northern Mariana Islands in the south Pacific, as the location for the plea because it is a US territory.
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