A US court has ordered Pyongyang to pay $US501 million in damages for the torture and death of US college student Otto Warmbier, who died last year shortly after being released from a North Korea prison
A US court has ordered Pyongyang to pay $US501 million in damages for the torture and death of US college student Otto Warmbier, who died last year shortly after being released from a North Korea prison
25 December 2018
Warmbier's parents sued North Korea in April over their son's death.
The 22-year-old student died in the US days after being released from captivity in a coma.
An Ohio coroner said the cause of death was lack of oxygen and blood to the brain.
Judge Beryl Howell of the US District Court for the District of Columbia said.North Korea is liable for the torture, hostage taking, and extrajudicial killing of Otto Warmbier, and the injuries to his mother and father, Fred and Cindy Warmbier
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