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North Korea murdered Otto Warmbier, McCaine says

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North Korea murdered Otto Warmbier, McCaine says

The Republican chairman of the Armed Services Committee the United States of America, John McCaine has condemned the death of 22-year-old US student Otto Warmbier who recently returned from North Korea while also noting that the US will not ‘tolerate murder of citizens by hostile powers’.

McCain said Otto a University of Virginia student, who died days after his release from detention there in North Korea was “murdered by the Kim Jong-un regime”.

“The United States of America cannot and should not tolerate the murder of its citizens by hostile powers,” McCain said in a statement on Monday.

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Otto’s death was announced by his family in a statement released by UC Health Systems, saying, “It is our sad duty to report that our son, Otto Warmbier, has completed his journey home. Surrounded by his loving family, Otto died today at 2:20pm”.

Continuing, the statement by Otto’s family revealed that their son could not survive the torture dished out to him by North Korean authorities.

Otto was arrested in North Korea while visiting as a tourist, and had been described by doctors who examined him last week on his return as having suffered extensive brain damage that left him in a state of “unresponsive wakefulness”.

 

 

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