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North Korea responds to Warmbier death
North Korea responds to Warmbier death
DPRK called itself 'the biggest victim of this incident' in Warmbier’s detainment, release and death
by Anna Higgins | Jun 25 2017 | 15 hours ago
A spokesperson for North Korea’s Foreign Ministry released a statement Friday claiming North Korea is a victim of a U.S. smear campaign in the death of University student Otto Warmbier.
The statement also claimed North Korea did not cause his medical condition and coma through beatings and torture, but that the country had taken care of him while he was in custody and “brought him back alive.”
According to the statement, North Korea does not know the cause of Warmbier’s death. Doctors from the University of Cincinnati Medical Center treating Warmbier said he was in a state of “unresponsive wakefulness” and had lost a lot of brain tissue upon his June 13 release.
DPRK called itself 'the biggest victim of this incident' in Warmbier’s detainment, release and death
by Anna Higgins | Jun 25 2017 | 15 hours ago
A spokesperson for North Korea’s Foreign Ministry released a statement Friday claiming North Korea is a victim of a U.S. smear campaign in the death of University student Otto Warmbier.
The statement also claimed North Korea did not cause his medical condition and coma through beatings and torture, but that the country had taken care of him while he was in custody and “brought him back alive.”
According to the statement, North Korea does not know the cause of Warmbier’s death. Doctors from the University of Cincinnati Medical Center treating Warmbier said he was in a state of “unresponsive wakefulness” and had lost a lot of brain tissue upon his June 13 release.
DPRK FM Spokesman Accuses U.S. of Slandering Humanitarian Measure
Date: 23/06/2017 | Source: KCNA.co.jp (English) | Read original version at source
Pyongyang, June 23 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry Friday released the following statement over the fact the U.S. administration authorities are heating up the anti-DPRK smear campaign by abusing the humanitarian measure taken by the DPRK as an inhuman act, concerning the death of Warmbier, an American citizen:
Warmbier is clearly a criminal sentenced to reform through labor in accordance with the DPRK law on March 16, 2016 for the hostile act he committed against the DPRK on an assignment from an anti-DPRK plot-breeding organization of the U.S.
As was made public to the world, during the press conference on February 29, 2016, Warmbier confessed in tears that he had committed hostile act against the DPRK, with connivance of the U.S. administration, after he received an assignment from the Z-Society of the Virginia University of the U.S. controlled by the Friendship United Methodist Church, an anti-DPRK plot-breeding organization of the U.S., and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
CNN and other U.S. media outlets are still broadcasting the video of Warmbier admitting his crime and apologizing for it at the press conference in Pyongyang.
Date: 23/06/2017 | Source: KCNA.co.jp (English) | Read original version at source
Pyongyang, June 23 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the DPRK Foreign Ministry Friday released the following statement over the fact the U.S. administration authorities are heating up the anti-DPRK smear campaign by abusing the humanitarian measure taken by the DPRK as an inhuman act, concerning the death of Warmbier, an American citizen:
Warmbier is clearly a criminal sentenced to reform through labor in accordance with the DPRK law on March 16, 2016 for the hostile act he committed against the DPRK on an assignment from an anti-DPRK plot-breeding organization of the U.S.
As was made public to the world, during the press conference on February 29, 2016, Warmbier confessed in tears that he had committed hostile act against the DPRK, with connivance of the U.S. administration, after he received an assignment from the Z-Society of the Virginia University of the U.S. controlled by the Friendship United Methodist Church, an anti-DPRK plot-breeding organization of the U.S., and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
CNN and other U.S. media outlets are still broadcasting the video of Warmbier admitting his crime and apologizing for it at the press conference in Pyongyang.