The Latest on North Korea’s denial that it tortured an American student who was detained for more than a year and died days after being released in a coma (all times local) :
SEOUL, South Korea — The Latest on North Korea’s denial that it tortured an American student who was detained for more than a year and died days after being released in a coma (all times local) :
6: 20 p.m.
North Korea has called itself the “biggest victim” in the death of an American student who was detained for more than a year and died days after being released in a coma.
The North’s official Korean Central News Agency on Friday denied that North Korea cruelly treated or tortured Otto Warmbier and accused the United States and South Korea of a smear campaign that insulted what it called its “humanitarian” treatment of him.
Doctors in the United States who examined Warmbier after his release by North Korea said he had suffered a severe neurological injury from an unknown cause.
