The next day, Warmbier was flown to a US base in Japan before making the longer journey to OH to be reunited with his family.
Wearing the same coat as Otto did during his confession in North Korea, Fred Warmbier said it's a "bittersweet feeling our family has" since Otto Warmbier's return.
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 was detained by North Korea in January 2016 and was released Tuesday.
The 22-year-old University of Virginia student, who is now in a coma, was freed for humanitarian reasons, according to a one-line report from a North Korean news agency Thursday.
Doctors at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center released some information on the condition of the USA college student who was recently released from North Korea after 17 months. He doesn't appear to show any signs of understanding language. "He has not spoken". The state-run Korean Central News Agency on Thursday did not comment on his medical condition.
White says she kept in touch with the University of Virginia student after he left her class. He says the administration is heartened Warmbier has been reunited with his family.
North Korea said that Warmbier's coma lasted most of his detainment and was caused by sleeping pills and the bacterial disease botulism, allegedly contracted shortly after his sentencing in March 2016.
As for whether former President Barack Obama's administration could have done more to bring Otto home, the father said he thought "the results speak for themselves".
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At the press conference, the doctors did not provide a prognosis for Warmbier. Physicians at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center said that Warmbier had suffered extensive brain damage, which is consistent with a cardiopulmonary event; not a head injury.
Fred Warmbier said he was stunned when told of his son's condition one week ago. The coma has led to "profound weakness" in his muscle tissues, according to the doctors.
Fred Warmbier told reporters at a press conference in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Thursday morning the release came after he and his wife decided the "time for strategic patience was over", the BBC reported. "To hold him that long, to sentence him after a kangaroo court trial to 15 years hard labor".
Warmbier, 22, was "brutalized and terrorized" by the North Korean regime, his parents said in a statement released Tuesday before he arrived in the United States on a medevac flight. Warmbier has been around his family continuously since his return to the US. In an emotional news conference in OH, the father did not demur when asked if Obama could have done more.
Fred Warmbier called on North Korea to release other American detainees.
The family was "extremely grateful for their efforts and concern", Fred Warmbier said.
"We don't believe anything they (the North Koreans) say", his father said.
Former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson said there should be an investigation into what happened to Mr Warmbier, saying it was a "tragic situation".
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