Otto warmbier has died ...........at 22 years old ...........
i find this despicable .......... sad.......... and totally unjust ........
I mean ........ Korea are absolutely cold heartless pieces of shit .......they must have known he was dying .....and the doctors told the govt .......
I mean he snatched poster ........ ...but making his life so bad he died ...........this shows you the Korean mentality in regards for life .............
They abuse animals ........... and have no regards for life .......they need to be made to pay for this ..............Korea has basically taken a young mans life ......
No one deserves to suffer ............my heart goes out to his mother and father ............
I hope Americans stop going to Korea and we ban all business with them .....they cannot be trusted ......
Korea needs to step up......... and apologize and make good with the parents of otto ......its unacceptable on any level
US student freed by North Korea in a coma dies at 22
CINCINNATI (AP) — Otto Warmbier, an American college student who was released by North Korea in a coma last week after more than a year in captivity, died Monday, his family said.
The 22-year-old "has completed his journey home," the family said in a statement.
"Unfortunately, the awful, torturous mistreatment our son received at the hands of the North Koreans ensured that no other outcome was possible beyond the sad one we experienced today," his parents said.
Doctors had described his condition as a state of "unresponsive wakefulness" and said he suffered a "severe neurological injury" of unknown cause.
His father, Fred Warmbier, said last week that he believed Otto had been fighting for months to stay alive to return to his family. Their statement Monday said he had looked uncomfortable and anguished after returning June 13, but his countenance later changed.
"He was peace. He was home, and we believe he could sense that," they said.
Warmbier was convicted of subversion after he tearfully confessed that he had tried to steal a propaganda banner while visiting with a tour group from China. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison with hard labor in North Korea.
The University of Virginia student was held for more than 17 months. His family said last week they were told he had been a coma since soon after his March 2016 sentencing.
Doctors said he has suffered extensive loss of brain tissue and "profound weakness and contraction" of his muscles, arms and legs. His eyes opened and blinked, but without signs of understanding verbal commands or his surroundings.
North Korea said he went into a coma after contracting botulism and taking a sleeping pill. Doctors in Cincinnati said they found no active sign of botulism nor evidence of beatings.
His parents told The Associated Press in a statement the day of his release that they wanted "the world to know how we and our son have been brutalized and terrorized by the pariah regime " and expressed relief he had been returned to "finally be with people who love him."
Fred Warmbier praised his son's "performance" and President Donald Trump's administration. He was critical of former President Barack Obama's approach to his son's situation.
The younger Warmbier grew up in the northern Cincinnati suburb of Wyoming. He was salutatorian of his 2013 class at the highly rated high school, and was on the soccer team, among other activities.
Ohio's U.S. senators sharply criticized North Korea last week.
Republican Sen. Rob Portman said North Korea should be "universally condemned for its abhorrent behavior." Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown said the country's "despicable actions ... must be condemned."
The Warmbiers have "had to endure more than any family should have to bear," Portman added.
Three Americans remain held in North Korea. The U.S. government accuses North Korea of using such detainees as political pawns. North Korea accuses Washington and South Korea of sending spies to overthrow its government.
At the time of Warmbier's release, a White House official said Joseph Yun, the U.S. envoy on North Korea, had met with North Korean foreign ministry representatives in Norway the previous month. Such direct consultations between the two governments are rare because they don't have formal diplomatic relations.
At the meeting, North Korea agreed that Swedish diplomats could visit all four American detainees. Yun learned about Warmbier's condition in a meeting a week before the release from the North Korean ambassador at the U.N. in New York. Yun then was dispatched to North Korea and visited Warmbier June 12 with two doctors and demanded his release on humanitarian grounds.
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