As condemnation reached a crescendo, the Pyongyang authorities started complaining at at the US for waging a ‘smear campaign’ over the death of the student, pretending that authorities there ‘don’t know why he fell ill either.’
The rogue state had declared on Friday that the death of student Warmbier soon after his return home was a mystery, trying to was away documented accusations that he had died because of torture and beating during his captivity. For a state with the worst record on human rights on its people the world over, to claim that accusations of torture were ‘groundless’ sent a grim reminder of what state North Korea actually is.
The Pyongyang authorities said via its foreign ministry in comments carried by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) that Warmbier was “a victim of the policy of strategic patience” of former U.S. President Barack Obama whose government never requested his release. That means, outside that coding, that Obama had not included to tall orders from North Korea on what to pay to get the student back, so he was freed when close to death.
“The fact that Warmbier died suddenly in less than a week just after his return to the U.S. in his normal state of health indicators is a mystery to us as well,” the spokesman was quoted as saying, an observation disputed in actual record of how he died, as he was released when he was close to brain death and in comma, not in ‘normal state of health’ as the regime insisted.
Chroniclers say that Warmbier, 22, was arrested in the reclusive country while visiting as a tourist. He was sentenced to 15 years of hard labour for trying to steal an item bearing a propaganda slogan from his hotel, North Korea state media said. Analysts realize that such an accusation could just be fabricated, as the North Koreans would be glad if a US student wanted a memento with political implications to show fellow students. Issues of stealing would not for once arise, but he was captured for strategic purposes by DPRK police.
As if to finally admit guilt by the rogue state, the ministerial spokesman said that the smear campaign against North Korea staged in the US “compels us to make firm determination that humanitarianism and benevolence for the enemy are a taboo and we should further sharpen the blade of law.
Our relevant agencies treat all criminals ... thoroughly in accordance with domestic laws and international standards and Warmbier was not an exception,” the ministry callously admitted.
“Those who have absolutely no idea about how well we treated Warmbier under humanitarian conditions dare to utter ‘mistreatment’ and ‘torture’”, the statement continued, as Warmbier was being buried Thursday in Ohio, less than a week after he was sent back home in a mysterious coma. US President Donald Trump said tat what happened to Otto |Warmbier was a disgrace for those with a sense of decency, human rights.
He had been incarcerated for more than a year in North Korea after allegedly stealing a political slogan while on a trip to the capital Pyongyang as a tourist
He was brought back to the United States with brain damage, in what doctors described as state of “unresponsive wakefulness”, and died on Monday.
U.S. doctors who had travelled to the North last week to evacuate him had recognised that the North had “provided him with medical treatment and brought him back alive whose heart was nearly stopped,” an unnamed ministry spokesman said.
“Although Warmbier was a criminal who committed a hostile act against the DPRK, we accepted the repeated requests of the present U.S. administration and, in consideration of his bad health, sent him back home on humanitarian grounds,” the spokesman said.
The exact cause of Warmbier’s death remains unclear.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.
“Those who have absolutely no idea about how well we treated Warmbier under humanitarian conditions dare to utter ‘mistreatment’ and ‘torture’”.
Warmbier was buried Thursday in Ohio, less than a week after he was sent back home in a mysterious coma.He had been incarcerated for more than a year in North Korea after allegedly stealing a political slogan while on a trip to the capital Pyongyang as a tourist
He was brought back to the United States with brain damage, in what doctors described as state of “unresponsive wakefulness”, and died on Monday.
U.S. doctors who had travelled to the North last week to evacuate him had recognised that the North had “provided him with medical treatment and brought him back alive whose heart was nearly stopped,” an unnamed ministry spokesman said.
“Although Warmbier was a criminal who committed a hostile act against the DPRK, we accepted the repeated requests of the present U.S. administration and, in consideration of his bad health, sent him back home on humanitarian grounds,” the spokesman said.
The exact cause of Warmbier’s death remains unclear.
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.
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