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Otto Frederick Warmbier (December 12, 1994 – June 19, 2017) was an American college student who was imprisoned in North Korea in 2016 on a charge of subversion.In June 2017, he was released by North Korea in a vegetative state and died soon after his parents requested his feeding tube be removed.
Here is a list of US nationals arrested in North Korea. Otto Warmbier. American student Otto Warmbier (centre) escorted at the Supreme Court in Pyongyang, North Korea on 16 March 2016 (AP)
The last Westerner to see Otto Warmbier as he was arrested has spoken out for the first time in a new interview as Warmbier has returned home to U.S. soil after more than a year spent in detention ...
Otto Warmbier: 2 January 2016: 13 June 2017 [a] 529 Committing "hostile acts" against the DPRK by allegedly stealing a propaganda poster from his hotel. Released back in a vegetative state, later succumbing to injuries inflicted from "severe brain damage". [36] [37] Kim Sang-duk (Tony Kim) 21 April 2017: 9 May 2018: 384
It is now known that Warmbier has been in a coma since March 2016, when he was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor after being arrested on charges of stealing an item with a propaganda slogan on it.
In 2016, Otto Warmbier, an American college student, was arrested by North Korean authorities at Pyongyang International Airport, while ready to leave the country. Warmbier was part of an organized tour group that had toured the country before his arrest. North Korean authorities accused Warmbier of stealing a propaganda poster from a hotel.
"Otto had a shaved head, he had a feeding tube coming out of his nose, he was staring blankly into space, jerking violently," Fred Warmbier told Fox and Friends in a September 2017 interview. "He ...
Usually, people wet their feet in North Korea; then, like one of Otto Warmbier’s not-at-all-traumatized groupmates, they go on subsequent YPT trips to Cuba or Turkmenistan. In fact, almost every YPT guide has been drawn from its customer base—including one young Australian who climbed the ranks after his trip with Otto.