He died Monday at 2:20 pm (1820 GMT), surrounded by relatives in his home town of Cincinnati, Ohio.
His death elicited strong repudiations of the regime from the highest levels of the American government.
North Korean escapees have reported that it is common practice to send home prisoners who are very ill, said Greg Scarlatoiu, executive director of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK). Though Richardson said that Warmbier's condition could further complicate relations between the US and North Korea.
He added: "I'm sure he was really working for a United States intelligence agency and that they've paid his family off".
Flamboyant former National Basketball Association star Dennis Rodman landed in Beijing Saturday after a visit to North Korea, describing the escapade as a "real good trip". John McCain, R-Arizona. The tragedy is the North Korean's did not tell the United States for a full year.
However, Cincinnati doctors caring for Warmbier said they found no indication of remaining botulism - but they also said it's likely the toxin would no longer be in the body after more than a year.
At a Thursday press conference, Warmbier's doctors said he had suffered "extensive loss of brain tissue in all regions of the brain" consistent with oxygen deprivation seen in cardiac arrest, and was in "a state of unresponsive wakefulness".
We would like to thank the wonderful professionals at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center who did everything they could for Otto.
"We know very little about this North Korean leader Kim Jung Un, other than he is unpredictable, brash and might be cruel - might be awfully cruel if our young men might be treated the way he was", Richardson said, calling the North Korea explanation Warmbier contracted botulism and took a sleeping pill, slipping into a coma, is "very flimsy".
A sales manager in his mid-40s from England, Gratton met Warmbier in Beijing before their flight to North Korea as part of a tour group.
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The retired basketball player said before leaving for Pyongyang last week that his mission was to try to build bridges between the U.S. and the reclusive state. Pyongyang contends that Warmbier attempted to pilfer a propaganda poster.
The president of the University of Virginia says she's saddened to learn about the death of a student from OH who was recently released from North Korea in a coma. He admitted to the crime and begged for forgiveness and for his release. He says Warmbier was an innocent victim of a cruel and evil regime and did nothing to warrant his sad fate.
The incident comes as US-North Korea tensions have spiked over Pyongyang's pursuit of nuclear weapons and numerous missile tests this year.
Rodman was wearing a different T-shirt that read Ambassador Rodman and I come in peace when he left for Pyongyang, but the State Department said he was traveling in a private capacity. Tillerson began the effort and routinely updated the President.
But "what this accumulation of detainees reveals is that North Korea is a risky place, it is easy to step over some line", Haggard said, adding he was increasingly in favor of a tourism ban because the "hostages" were a liability for the US government.
Doctors had not determined how Warmbier became comatose.
One wonders how the arrest, ill treatment and release of Warmbier fit in this diplomatic context.
He was evacuated the next day and reunited with his family in Cincinnati.
When he was returned to the USA, the parents added, he was unable to speak, see or respond to verbal commands. Their statement Monday said he looked uncomfortable and anguished after arriving June 13, but his countenance later changed.
The 22-year-old "has completed his journey home", relatives said in a statement.
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