The fact that one of the Warmbier family’s attorneys is also Vice President Mike Pence’s lawyer reaffirms that this is a highly political case, Richard Becker from International ANSWER Coalition told RT.
A US judge has ordered Pyongyang to pay half a billion dollars in damages to the family of American student Otto Warmbier who died after being released from North Korean custody. Following his death, Washington relisted North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism in November 2017.
Meanwhile, Pyongyang rejects the allegation that it tortured the student prior to his death.
Richard Becker, a member of the national steering committee for the International ANSWER Coalition, called it a completely political case.
“It is tragic that this young man died. But there is no evidence to support what the judge said. The judge made a very political ruling calling North Korea ‘a totalitarian state’ and saying that it is more likely than not that he was barbarically tortured,” he continued.
Becker noted that the coroner in Hamilton, Ohio, who did the autopsy “could not rule what had caused him to lose oxygen to the brain and going into a coma sometime earlier.
