He had been sentenced to 15 years hard labour after he was caught trying to take a propaganda banner from North Korea for someone back home in exchange for a used auto and to impress a semi-secret society he wanted to join. "Surrounded by his loving family, Otto died today at 2:20 p.m.", the statement read.
North Korea released Warmbier last week, saying he was being freed "on humanitarian grounds". Warmbier, serving a 15-year prison term for alleged anti-state acts, was released and medically evacuated from the reclusive country Tuesday and has been in a coma for months, his parents said. But he was released back to the United States in a comatose state. Authorities there have said Warmbier fell into a coma after contracting botulism and taking a sleeping pill.
"Melania and I offer our deepest condolences to the family of Otto Warmbier on his untimely passing", Trump said in a statement. "He was home and we believe he could sense that", his parents said in the statement. Vice President Mike Pence called his death "a tragic example of North Korea's disregard for human life". "Our thoughts and prayers are with Otto's family and friends, and all who loved him".
Warmbier was accused of trying to steal a propaganda banner while visiting with a tour group and was convicted of subversion.
He was a college student who, if he was not taken prisoner and life had gone to plan, would now be in his first month as a new graduate of the University of Virginia.
According to the North Korean government, Warmbier was detained because he had sneaked onto a restricted floor of his hotel and had stolen a political poster.
At the time of Warmbier's release, a White House official said Joseph Yun, the USA envoy on North Korea, had met with North Korean foreign ministry representatives in Norway the previous month. And he's condemning the "brutality of the North Korean regime as we mourn its latest victim".
The Republican senator says Warmbier was a promising young man who was kind, generous and accomplished. Other American citizens on his trip were allowed to leave North Korea without incident.
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In total, the trip was supposed to last five days. In the trail, Mr Warmbier pleaded with North Korean officials to have pity on him.
Al Jazeera's Mike Hanna, reporting from Washington, DC, said that Warmbier's death could increase pressure on United States authorities to prohibit Americans from visiting North Korea.
Fred Warmbier praised his son's "performance" and President Donald Trump's administration.
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.
In a news conference on Thursday, Warmbier's father called his return bittersweet.
Warmbier was treated at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center after returning to the U.S. Last week, doctors caring for Warmbier said that he suffered from a condition they described as "unresponsive wakefulness" or persistent vegetative state.
Then, on June 6, State Department Special Representative Joseph Yun learned of Warmbier's deteriorating health in a meeting with North Korean UN Mission Ambassador Pak Kil-yon in New York City, the senior State Department official said.
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