North Korea has denied the torture of the deceased student from the United States

KIEV. June 24. UNN. The government of North Korea objected to cruelty to the now deceased student from the USA Otto Warmbier, which previously was sentenced to 15 years in prison in North Korea, reports UNN citing BBC.

The representative of the Pyongyang stated that student came home “in his normal state of health.” And earlier family Warmbier O. reported that he was in a coma and in this condition he was taken to the United States.

“The fact that Warmbier died suddenly less than a week after his return to the USA in its normal condition is a mystery to us also,” said the DPRK.

The representative of Korea said that the allegations against the country in the torture of a student “was baseless”.

“Those who do not have a clue about how we humanely considered the case Warmbier, dare to talk about” bad attitude “and” torture “, – said the official of the DPRK.

Otto Warmbier was 23 years old. He arrived in North Korea in the winter of 2015 along with a tour group. He was arrested for trying to steal from a hotel in Pyongyang, the propaganda poster with the slogan.

The Supreme court of North Korea sentenced a student from the United States to 15 years in a labor colony. After the trial, he spoke at a press conference in Pyongyang’s and admitted his guilt.

In June 2017, it became known that Warmbier after his release from custody in North Korea returned to the United States in a coma. To examine Warmbier had doctors medical center, University of Cincinnati, Ohio.

North Korea said then that Otto Warmbier contracted botulism and fell into a coma after taking sleeping pills in the last year.

19, a student of Otto Warmbier died in the United States .