When forced to make a public confession, Warmbier said he stole the poster for a member of the Friendship United Methodist Church in Wyoming, Ohio, who wanted it 'as a trophy.' In exchange, Warmbier was to receive a used auto worth $10,000. As President Donald Trump's administration takes office one year later, there's been little public word about what has happened to Warmbier.
Warmbier died Monday after 17 months of imprisonment in North Korea, but the circumstances surrounding his death remained murky.
After more than a year detained in North Korea, Otto Warmbier returned to the United States in a coma last week, only to die six days after his arrival.
Warmbier's funeral is scheduled for Thursday at his high school alma mater in Wyoming, Ohio.
The Hamilton County Coroner's Office in Warmbier's home state of OH said it will rely on an external examination of the 22-year-old's body and medical records to determine the cause of death. His mother is Jewish, but the family is not observant, according to Bergman.
Doctors said the University of Virginia college student, who was on a tourist trip when arrested, had suffered severe brain damage while in North Korean captivity.
Mr Warmbier was traveling in North Korea with a tour group.
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"Unfortunately, the terrible torturous mistreatment our son received at the hands of the North Koreans ensured that no other outcome was possible", they said.
Mr Warmbier was accused of trying to steal a propaganda banner while visiting North Korea in 2015 and was later convicted of subversion. Soon after his family heard nothing more about his fate.
Vagonis, who dated Warmbier for more than a year before he left for North Korea, recalled how the two met at a party at Warmbier's apartment, where she noticed his "insane" tie collection. "That can be catastrophic and precipitous", Dr. Daniel Laskowitz, a professor of neurology at Duke University told NBC Tuesday, noting that the flight back from North Korea could have made a blood clot form or spread to the lungs.
The North Korean commentary drew in South Korea which they said should realize "following psychopath Trump ... will only lead to disaster". Doctors in Cincinnati said they found no active sign of botulism or evidence of beatings.
"There should at least be a form for them to fill out that says, 'If I go to North Korea, I understand I am taking great risk, and I do not hold the American government responsible, '" McCain said.
The U.S. often sends powerful warplanes in times of heightened animosities with North Korea, and flew B-1B bombers several times this year as the North conducted a series of banned ballistic missile tests.
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