After learning the 22-year-old is in a coma, a State Department official went to Pyongyang to demand his release on “humanitarian grounds.”
On Tuesday morning, when Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced that American Otto Warmbier was on his way home from a North Korea prison, it was impossible not to notice that the surprise move came on the same day Dennis Rodman arrived in Pyongyang.
Had Kim Jong Un, a’ 90s basketball fanboy, traded a high-profile American prisoner for a chance to play NBA Jam with his boyhood hero?
No. Warmbier’s release was secured by Joseph Yun, a special envoy on North Korea who went to Pyongyang and insisted that the 22-year-old, who is reportedly in a coma, be released on “humanitarian grounds, ” Reuters reports.
