June 20, 2017

"Otto Warmbier, an American college student who was released by North Korea in a coma last week, died on Monday. According to US media, Warmbier had been in a vegetative state for a long time. He was detained by North Korea during a trip in January 2016 and sentenced to 15 years' hard labor for subversive activities. He confessed on North Korean state TV that he had tried to steal a propaganda poster from a hotel.

Pyongyang suggested that Warmbier was comatose after contracting botulism and taking a sleeping pill, multiple Western media outlets reported. But Warmbier's parents and the US public believe he was abused in North Korean custody. Although there is no definite medical conclusion about what caused his death, the US side appears very agitated."

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