United States student Otto Warmbier is hospitalized in Cincinnati after he was returned from North Korea.
An airplane carrying Otto Warmbier, who's from OH, arrived in Cincinnati shortly before 10:20 p.m.
An airplane carrying Otto Warmbier, who is from OH, landed in Cincinnati late Tuesday night. 'Sadly, he is in a coma and we have been told he has been in that condition since March of 2016, ' the parents said in a statement.
US student Otto Warmbier is escorted at the supreme court in Pyongyang, North Korea, in 2016.
The University of Virginia student, a native of Cincinnati, had attempted to steal a propaganda banner while he was in North Korea for a five-day visit.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced Warmbier's release Tuesday and said he'd be reunited with his family.
Warmbier's release came as former USA basketball star Dennis Rodman arrived in North Korea on Tuesday, returning to the increasingly isolated nuclear-armed country where he has previously met leader Kim Jong Un. He has not been seen in public since he was sentenced in March 2016.
Otto Warmbier has already departed from North Korea in the United States. The North Korean government told his parents that food poisoning was to blame.
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Currently, a total of six South Koreans are detained in North Korea, including several religious missionaries accused of treason or espionage. This reportedly occurred a year ago - but his family was just alerted of his condition last week, according to a statement released by the Warmbier family.
But State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said the visit "had nothing to do with the release". Swedish diplomats, who represent US interests in Pyongyang, were able to check in on Warmbier recently and reported that the young American was in a coma after being stricken with what appeared to be a case of botulism.
Lu said he has "consistently" welcomed and supported greater dialogue and contact between North Korea and the US - as countries directly involved in the Korean Peninsula's nuclear issue - to increase mutual understanding and trust. He also appears to have prompted recent speculation that he might become Mr. Trump's ambassador to North Korea if diplomatic relations are ever established.
Together with Kenneth Bae, the DPRK government released Matthew Todd Miller, another USA citizen who tore his visa upon arrival at Pyongyang International Airport in an alleged attempt to seek asylum and was later given a six-year sentence for similar charges.
Rodman, who endorsed presidential candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 election campaign and appeared twice as a contestant on Trump's "Celebrity Apprentice" TV show, said his latest visit was merely created to visit old friends and to "have a good time".
"It wasn't a situation where they asked", one official said of the US representatives. And Yun was dispatched to North Korea and visited Warmbier with two doctors on Monday, and demanded his release.
Rodman received the red-carpet treatment on his four past trips since 2013, which generated a lot of publicity-most of it not good-and did little in terms of diplomacy.
According to the New York Times, American officials suspect that Warmbier's condition could be the result of brutality he may have suffered at the hands of prison guards, given that the North Korean regime has a history of mistreating prisoners.
North Korea poses one of the greatest national security challenges for Trump as it tries to develop a nuclear-tipped missile that could strike America.
The North has occasionally jailed United States citizens and released them only after visits by high-profile political figures, including former president Bill Clinton.
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