Two people hug outside the plane carrying Otto Warmbier, a 22-year-old University of Virginia undergraduate student who was imprisoned in North Korea in March 2016, before he is transferred from a transport aircraft to an amb.
In a statement on Tuesday, Mr and Mrs Warmbier said: "Sadly, he is in a coma and we have been told he has been in that condition since March 2016".
USA student Otto Warmbier is hospitalized in Cincinnati after he was returned from North Korea.
An American college student who was released from a North Korean prison has been taken to an OH hospital for treatment.
Officials worked quietly as reporters and photographers watched from behind a fence. They plan to hold a press conference at 10 a.m. Thursday at Wyoming High School.
"We get to see our son Otto tonight", Fred Warmbier said in an interview Tuesday morning after his son was evacuated.
It was apparently shortly after that date that Otto fell ill. But accounts of former prisoners have shed some light on the harsh conditions he and other detainees might have endured. She struggled Tuesday night to find the words. "Please! I made the worst mistake of my life!"
A police officer stood guard nearby.
Warmbier was released "at the direction of the president", Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in a statement Tuesday, adding the department was continuing discussions with the North regarding three other American detainees. In this undated photo published on September 7, 2013, on the homepage of North Korea's Rodong Sinmun newspaper, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, talks with former National Basketball Association player Dennis Rodman during a dinner.
The NBA Hall of Fame player arrived in Pyongyang for a four-day visit the same day Warmbier was released.
Nauert would not say anything about Warmbier's health because of privacy concerns.
Washington has no trade links with North Korea, and has been considering sanctioning companies from third countries who deal with the secretive regime of Kim Jong-un in violation of United Nations resolutions. "I'm not going to characterize what their son has been through".
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Certainly Mr. Trump is aware of Mr. Rodman's visit, but the former athlete's trip doesn't have official backing.
The U.S. relies on Sweden to represent its interests in North Korea, since the U.S. has no direct diplomatic relations with North Korea itself. "Take care of Otto", Trump is said to have instructed his top diplomat.
"This is a matter of grave concern", Richardson said. He reportedly had botulism, was given a sleeping pill and never woke up since. "And why was this not disclosed?"
Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, called Warmbier's arrest and trial "unnecessary and appalling", while lawmakers from Virginia also denounced North Korea's actions. "Over the last 18 months, they have had to endure more than any family should have to bear".
"I want my kid home".
Warmbier was to have graduated last month had he not been detained.
A small group of family friends was nearby to celebrate Warmbier's arrival, cheering and holding signs that read "Pray for Otto" and "Welcome home Otto".
SEOUL - South Korea on Wednesday welcomed the release of an American college student long detained in North Korea and vowed efforts to free its own citizens held in the communist country. Three Americans remain in custody.
The 22-year-old's return marks an end to the ordeal that his family has been through, not knowing what had happened to Warmbier since he was sentenced to 15 years in prison with hard labor in March last year.
Warmbier was detained in January 2016 at the airport in Pyongyang on his way home from a visit to the reclusive country. He was convicted in March 2016 and sentenced to 10 years hard labor, about a week after Warmbier's conviction - both sentences were handed down shortly after the USA had levied steeper sanctions against North Korea in response to missile testing.
A North Korean foreign ministry official, requesting anonymity because no formal North Korean statement had been released, said only that Warmbier was released and left the country Tuesday.
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