Warmbier, a University of Virginia undergraduate, was visiting the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, as part of a student tour group. After a tearful public trial in March of last year, he was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor. Such action might be expelling all North Korea diplomats to the UN and North Korean UN employees for six months.
Otto Warmbier was rushed to a Cincinnati hospital shortly after arriving from Pyongyang late Tuesday night. But the fact that he had been kept, comatose, in North Korea for more than a year could worsen the already tense relationship between Pyongyang and Washington. The U.S. could allow a small contingent of North Korean diplomats to return to NY in six months after they were vetted for criminal, terrorist and espionage ties. President Trump ordered a State Department envoy and a medical team to Pyongyang to take Mr. Warmbier home to OH, ending his parents' nightmare and showing how intractable relations remain between the countries.
Otto Warmbier, an American university student held prisoner in North Korea for 17 months and said by his family to be in a coma, was medically evacuated from the reclusive country after a rare visit there from a high-level USA official.
Multiple people involved in unofficial talks with North Korea say that the Trump administration has been making overtures toward the Kim regime, including trying to set up a secret back channel to the North Korean leader using "an associate of Trump's" rather than the usual line-up of North Korea experts and former officials who talk to Pyongyang's representatives.
A plane carrying Warmbier, 22, touched down in Cincinnati on Tuesday night, after a stop at a US military facility near Sapporo, Japan. Wearing dark trousers and a blue shirt, Mr. Warmbier was carried off the plane and taken to University of Cincinnati Medical Center.
"Out of respect for the privacy of Mr. Warmbier and his family", said Tillerson, "we have no further comment".
"We were just able to get the release of Mr Warmbier".
North Korea has released an American student who was sentenced to 15 years hard labor last year, and who has been in a coma ever since.
Any visit to North Korea by a high-profile American is a political minefield. Three Americans remain in custody.
The Democrat and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations praised the Department of State for working to bring Mr Warmbier home. Pyongyang assented, and preparations were made to bring Warmbier home. Rodman has said his visit has nothing to do with the White House.
Tillerson called Trump at 8:35 a.m. Tuesday to inform him that Warmbier was on an airplane en route to the United States, an official said.
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Much about the hastily arranged release remains a mystery.
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) - Dennis Rodman, the former National Basketball Association bad boy who has palled around with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, began sightseeing in Pyongyang on Wednesday during a trip he said he hoped would "open a door" for his former "Celebrity Apprentice" boss - President Donald Trump. His trips to North Korea could be inflicting him with a substantial damage on his health.
But the state department spokesman Heather Nauert said Mr Rodman's visit "had nothing to do with the release". The government claims Otto was given a sleeping pill and never woke up.
An American college student who was released from a North Korean prison is finally home but in a coma and undergoing treatment at an OH hospital.
Warmbier's parents were told their son had contracted botulism and was given a sleeping pill soon after his trial in March past year and never woke.
"But one thing we know is that Trump is transactional", said one person who works on North Korea, speaking on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the discussions. His family said he arrived in a state of coma.
It is crucial that these rogue states be sent a strong signal that the USA government will not tolerate mistreatment of US citizens.
Acting on the instructions of President Donald Trump, the Department of State and medial professionals evacuated an American college student who was imprisoned in North Korea for over a year to the U.S. Tuesday. "This is a Trump-led effort", one said.
Otto's parents are due to give a full statement today. "My hope is that he is used to start dialogue".
"I beg that you see how I am only human", Warmbier said at his trial. "I made the worst mistake of my life", he said.
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