Here the latest on the medical status of Otto Warmbier after his release from a North Korean prison:
A man believed to be Otto Warmbier was transferred from an airplane to an ambulance at Lunken Airport in Cincinnati on Tuesday.
An American college student who was imprisoned in North Korea and returned to his home state of Ohio in a coma suffered a “severe neurological injury,” a hospital spokeswoman said Thursday.
Otto Warmbier is in stable condition at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center with his mother by his side, hospital spokeswoman Kelly Martin said. Doctors planned an update later Thursday.
His father, Fred Warmbier, said he does not believe North Korea’s explanation that the coma resulted from botulism and a sleeping pill. He said there was no reason for North Korea to keep his 22-year-old son’s condition a secret and deny him top medical care.
Fred Warmbier called his son’s return bittersweet.
“Relief that Otto is now home in the arms of those who love him and anger that he was so brutally treated for so long,” he said at a news conference at Wyoming High School, where Warmbier graduated in 2013 as class salutatorian and played soccer. Blue-and-white ribbons in the school’s colors were tied around the trees and utility poles all the way along the city’s main road in a show of support.
To honor his son, Fred Warmbier wore the same jacket Otto wore when North Korea presented him before the media in March 2016 at an event where he tearfully confessed that he tried to steal a propaganda banner while visiting the country.
Fred Warmbier said that he doesn’t know why North Korea released his son but that the country doesn’t do anything out of “the kindness of their hearts.” He called on the country to release other Americans currently held there.
“There’s no excuse for the way the North Koreans treated our son,” he said.
Warmbier also accused North Korea of luring Americans to the country with a Chinese tour company making the false promise they will never be detained. [Associated Press]
You can read more at the link, but I don’t buy the botulism claim either considering the North Koreans are saying he went into a coma the day after his sentencing.
That leads me to believe one of two things happened; a guard could have possibly struck him in the head which the New York Times is reporting that US intelligence have reports of him being beaten. Another possibility is maybe he was so depressed from a 15 year jail sentence and beatings that he had a botched suicide attempt? Either way the Kim regime is responsible for what happened and should be held accountable for it.
“Held accountable” like those TX racist cops weren’t held accountable for false arrest and a black female dying in its custody to name just one.
ChickenHead
6 years ago
“Either way the Kim regime is responsible for what happened and should be held accountable for it.”
Are they?
Is it some kind or secret that crappy actions get crappy rewards in North Korea?
Has North Korea ever detained someone who wasn’t begging for trouble with action that is commonly considered criminal? Or action that is knowingly criminal in North Korea (looking at you, unhelpful Personal Lord and Savior).
This guy is responsible for the position he is in. If he had praised the Dear Little Whatever and asked for a propaganda poster of him, there likely would have been a rush to get him one. Instead he had to steal one.
I know what happens to people who steal from me. It does not go unpunished… and society limits my actions. Beating them into a coma would be a minimal response in a consequence-free environment.
So I sympathise with North Korea here… with a bonus if they can trick a dumbaß American president out of money and political capital.
…but sorry, NK… Trump ain’t Obama. Try again in some years.
Sidenote: You have to do something criminal for North Korea to detain you. Mexico, a much bigger shiťhole by many metrics, might detain you for no reason at all… but many people are too blinded by American propaganda to honestly consider that.
Mercury
6 years ago
We all know how evil North Korea is.
But the American did break their law in North Korea. In North Korea, disrespecting posters of the great leader usually leads to death or a long sentence in the death camps. The American should have known what the North Korea’s law is, when he went over there against the advice and the warning of the US state department. I mean all this wasn’t a surprise or a secret, why did he go over there and do this prank which in North Korea’s eyes is a serious crime? Is it a tiger’s fault if a man decides to climb over the zoo fence and tries to poke the tiger in the eye with a stick and then gets mauled?
Denny
6 years ago
He has no signs of physical trauma from a beating according to US doctors. They think it was a stroke
ChickenHead
6 years ago
Q: Why is Otto Warmbier is the world’s most amazing masturbator?
A: He comes a year after one stroke.
ChlckenHead
6 years ago
The biggest question is, who in this day and age, names their kid “Otto”?
ChickenHead
6 years ago
“The biggest question is, who in this day and age, names their kid “Otto”?”
Don’t know exactly. We know who did it in a day and age 20-some years ago.
@Chickenhead, Warmbier was responsible for getting himself in trouble. However, he was clearly a political pawn the regime nabbed in response to the sanctions they were hit with a day prior to his arrest. They regime was probably closely monitoring all US tourists for any reason to arrest them. I would not be surprised if someone actually told Warmbier that he could take one of the posters on the wall as a pretext to arrest him. We will never know now because of his condition.
Obama was smart enough to not create Googal scandals for himself and cared about national security…Trump, not so much.
Geriatric Baby Trump cannot put his toy away ~
‘Has anyone read him his Miranda rights?’: White House aides furious that Trump won’t remain silent. http://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-declares-war-on-rosenstein-he-has-no-qualms-about-throwing-him-under-a-bus
“President Donald Trump’s advisers are in anguish over the chief executive’s inability to control himself and not further complicate the multiple federal investigations engulfing the White House by tweeting or attacking other public figures.
The Daily Beast said Friday that Trump’s decision to lash out at Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Twitter Friday morning is yet another example of the president acting rashly and undercutting the defense being spun for him in the media by his surrogates. At this point, administration aides and advisers are joking about ways to keep the president quiet.”
“Held accountable” like those TX racist cops weren’t held accountable for false arrest and a black female dying in its custody to name just one.
“Either way the Kim regime is responsible for what happened and should be held accountable for it.”
Are they?
Is it some kind or secret that crappy actions get crappy rewards in North Korea?
Has North Korea ever detained someone who wasn’t begging for trouble with action that is commonly considered criminal? Or action that is knowingly criminal in North Korea (looking at you, unhelpful Personal Lord and Savior).
This guy is responsible for the position he is in. If he had praised the Dear Little Whatever and asked for a propaganda poster of him, there likely would have been a rush to get him one. Instead he had to steal one.
I know what happens to people who steal from me. It does not go unpunished… and society limits my actions. Beating them into a coma would be a minimal response in a consequence-free environment.
So I sympathise with North Korea here… with a bonus if they can trick a dumbaß American president out of money and political capital.
…but sorry, NK… Trump ain’t Obama. Try again in some years.
Sidenote: You have to do something criminal for North Korea to detain you. Mexico, a much bigger shiťhole by many metrics, might detain you for no reason at all… but many people are too blinded by American propaganda to honestly consider that.
We all know how evil North Korea is.
But the American did break their law in North Korea. In North Korea, disrespecting posters of the great leader usually leads to death or a long sentence in the death camps. The American should have known what the North Korea’s law is, when he went over there against the advice and the warning of the US state department. I mean all this wasn’t a surprise or a secret, why did he go over there and do this prank which in North Korea’s eyes is a serious crime? Is it a tiger’s fault if a man decides to climb over the zoo fence and tries to poke the tiger in the eye with a stick and then gets mauled?
He has no signs of physical trauma from a beating according to US doctors. They think it was a stroke
Q: Why is Otto Warmbier is the world’s most amazing masturbator?
A: He comes a year after one stroke.
The biggest question is, who in this day and age, names their kid “Otto”?
“The biggest question is, who in this day and age, names their kid “Otto”?”
Don’t know exactly. We know who did it in a day and age 20-some years ago.
As for THIS day and age… maybe…
Mr. & Mrs. Eroticasphixiation?
So N. Korea is a better place than Mexico aye? You spew so much idiocy. “but sorry, NK… Trump ain’t Obama.”
Correct, Trump is a laughing stock causing those around the world to also laugh at Trump ilk like you.
The REAL Biggest Question is “Why are you imitating ChickenHead?” We see the “L” replacing the “I” in “ChlckenHead”
Be your own person.
@Chickenhead, Warmbier was responsible for getting himself in trouble. However, he was clearly a political pawn the regime nabbed in response to the sanctions they were hit with a day prior to his arrest. They regime was probably closely monitoring all US tourists for any reason to arrest them. I would not be surprised if someone actually told Warmbier that he could take one of the posters on the wall as a pretext to arrest him. We will never know now because of his condition.
Speaking of his condition doctors are saying it is from a lack of oxygen to his brain.
Aka anoxic encephalopathy. Nurse liz called it right.
Obama was smart enough to not create Googal scandals for himself and cared about national security…Trump, not so much.
Geriatric Baby Trump cannot put his toy away ~
‘Has anyone read him his Miranda rights?’: White House aides furious that Trump won’t remain silent.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-declares-war-on-rosenstein-he-has-no-qualms-about-throwing-him-under-a-bus
“President Donald Trump’s advisers are in anguish over the chief executive’s inability to control himself and not further complicate the multiple federal investigations engulfing the White House by tweeting or attacking other public figures.
The Daily Beast said Friday that Trump’s decision to lash out at Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Twitter Friday morning is yet another example of the president acting rashly and undercutting the defense being spun for him in the media by his surrogates. At this point, administration aides and advisers are joking about ways to keep the president quiet.”
There. Feel better now?
Q: Why did the anoxic encephalopathy cross the road?
A: Tbone was choking his chicken.