Ten months after their son succumbed to injuries he’d gotten while imprisoned in North Korea (DPRK), the parents of Otto Warmbier filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the country’s government earlier this year. Now a federal judge in Washington…
Ten months after their son succumbed to injuries he’d gotten while imprisoned in North Korea (DPRK), the parents of Otto Warmbier filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the country’s government earlier this year. Now a federal judge in Washington D. C. has ruled in their favor and ordered North Korea to pay Warmbier’s family $500 million in damages.
„North Korea is liable for the torture, hostage taking, and extrajudicial killing of Otto Warmbier,“ ruled U. S. District Judge Beryl Howell on Monday. It was a „default judgment“ because the DPRK failed to respond to the case.
Howell ordered the North Korean government to pay Warmbier’s family a punitive charge of $450 million as well as $50 million for economic losses, medical costs, and the suffering that they’d endured. That’s less than the over $1 billion his parents had been seeking, per The Cincinnati Enquirer (which would have been about 2.
