Three Americans remain in custody in North Korea. Officials at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, where he was treated after his return from the North, declined to provide details, and his family asked the Hamilton County Coroner on Tuesday not to perform an autopsy.
Otto Warmbier was in a coma when he was released, and died less than a week after returning home.
Fred Warmbier, the student's father, said the same thing Thursday: "Dennis Rodman had nothing to do with Otto".
Sentenced to hard labor for stealing a political poster from a North Korean hotel, the 22-year-old Warmbier was medically evacuated in a coma last week after almost 18 months in captivity.
US Senator John McCain, a top figure in the ruling Republican Party, accused North Korea of murder.
The exact cause of Warmbier's death is unclear.
American doctors say he suffered brain damage and was in a state of "unresponsive wakefulness".
The statement issued by North Korea's foreign ministry was aimed at defending the hermit nation against the accusation of torturing Otto Warmbier.
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Over 2,500 people, including family, friends and well-wishers of American student Otto Warmbier, attended his funeral on Thursday (22 June) morning. However, Warmbier's family believes his death was a result of mistreatment he suffered during his captivity, suspicions that have been echoed by the USA government.
In the first official reaction to his death, a spokesman for the National Reconciliation Council earlier on Friday said that Warmbier was treated according to "international standards".
President Donald Trump has also suggested that the Obama administration did not do enough to secure Warmbier's release. Relatives say they were told the 22-year-old University of Virginia student had been in a coma since shortly after he was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in North Korea in March 2016.
Warmbier was suddenly released from North Korea last week, having spent 17 months in detention in the DPRK.
"He just lived life with such a zest and a passion that I haven't really ever experienced in somebody before", Warmbier's childhood friend Chris Colloton told the Cincinnati Inquirer newspaper.
Mr Warmbier was accused of trying to steal a propaganda banner while visiting North Korea in 2015 and was later convicted of subversion. Bagpipes were played as people formed two lines to head for the cemetery.
The family announced Warmbier's death in a statement, saying that 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 received today". In a news conference before Warmbier's death, they said they could not speculate on the cause of his condition.
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