North Korea Denies Torturing U.S. Student, Calls Death a Mystery
- Otto Warmbier given medical treatment and care, KCNA says
- ‘We are the biggest victim of this incident’: North Korea
American student Otto Frederick Warmbier, center, is escorted out of the courtroom after his trial in Pyongyang, capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, on March 16, 2015.
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North Korea denied torturing a U.S. student who died in Ohio after spending more than a year imprisoned in the rogue state, calling his death a mystery.
North Korea provided Otto Warmbier “medical treatments and care with all sincerity on humanitarian basis,” the state-run Korean Central News Agency said Friday. It called allegations of torture during his incarceration “groundless,” and said that vital health indicators were normal when he was examined by U.S. doctors in North Korea.