On Friday, North Korea was ordered by a United States federal judge to pay the parents of American student Otto Warmbier $501 million.
On Friday, North Korea was ordered by a United States federal judge to pay the parents of American student Otto Warmbier $501 million.
North Korea is liable for „the torture, hostage taking, and extrajudicial killing of Otto Warmbier,” said U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia’s Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell’s opinion.
According to The Hill, Howell found Warmbier’s estate to be entitled to $21 million in compensatory damages and $150 million in punitive damages, in addition to Fred and Cindy Warmbier, Otto’s parents, each being entitled to $15 million in compensatory damages and $150 million in punitive damages.
Warmbier, a sophomore at the University of Virginia, was detained by North Korean authorities in 2016 after allegedly taking a propaganda poster off a hotel wall. He was „tried“ by the secretive regime, found guilty, and sentenced to a stunning 15 years hard labor. Warmbier was likely brutally treated until the Trump Administration arranged for the young American student to be brought back to the U. S. last summer. When Warmbier arrived home to his parents, he was in a comatose state and would eventually pass away at age 22.
