North Korea insists U.S. student Warmbier wasn't tortured

[DonViejo]

Source: Reuters




SEPTEMBER 28, 2017 / 6:57 AM / UPDATED AN HOUR AGO

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Thursday that American student Otto Warmbier had suffered no torture during his 17-month detention, a day after an Ohio coroner said he died from lack of oxygen and blood to the brain caused by an unknown injury.

Sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for trying to take from his hotel an item bearing a propaganda slogan, the University of Virginia student was held by North Korea from January 2016 until his release on June 15.

Warmbier died days after arriving in the United States and his parents said that their son had been tortured while in North Korea.

North Korea had provided medical care to Warmbier despite his “hostile acts” against the country, and claims of torture are groundless slander aimed at opposing the North, North Korea’s foreign ministry spokesman was quoted as saying by the state-run KCNA news agency.

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[Iliyah]

1. All I have to say about that is if you don't believe that t-rump doesn't

lie . . . you will believe NK.

[janterry]

2. I'm sure he was harmed

but none of it makes sense. The autopsy says that he had some small scars - mostly consistent with medical intervention or ordinary scars that an athletic young man might have.

His parents said his teeth were mangled. The autopsy (here in the US) says his teeth were fine (not at all mangled).

IDK. I'm sure whatever happened was the fault of NK - that's clear. But it would have been nice to know a bit more (a more invasive autopsy would have been good. I guess his parents did not want it for religious reasons - they are Jewish).

The thing that really irritated me was that the parents said in the interview that NK is not the victim.

Why thinks they are? Fox news? Are they making the rounds to gin up the case for military intervention??

[Yupster]

4. If it was a normal country, we'd have

his doctors answering questions about what happened and his medical records turned over.

How many North Koreans have been put through worse than him. It really is awful.