Otto, the college student who returned to the United States last week after 17 months of detention in North Korea, died on Monday afternoon.
Otto Warmbier was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor after attempting to steal a propaganda poster from his Pyongyang hotel last year.
Mr. Warmbier's parents said in a statement Monday that his death was a result of "awful torturous mistreatment our son received at the hands of the North Koreans".
Doctors at the hospital where Warmbier died said though he was breathing on his own he had made no sign of understanding language or his surroundings and had made no "purposeful movements or behaviours".
U.S. Sen. John McCain - who was tortured as a POW in Vietnam - said the North Koreans "murdered" Otto Warmbier, the college kid who died in an OH hospital yesterday after falling into a coma as a prisoner in Kim Jong Un's gulag.
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said Warmbier's death: "touches the American heart like no other".
It jars so strikingly with the fates of most past detained Americans that outside observers are left struggling not only with the mystery of what killed Warmbier but also with what his death means for attempts by Washington and its allies to stop North Korea's pursuit of a nuclear-tipped ICBM that can target the US mainland.
When Otto returned to Cincinnati late on June 13th, he was unable to speak, unable to see and unable to react to verbal commands.
Republican Sen. Rob Portman of the Cincinnati area said North Korea should be "universally condemned for its abhorrent behavior".
The news prompted Young Pioneer Tours, the Beijing-based company that organized Warmbier's North Korea trip, to announce it will stop taking USA citizens on tours to the country.
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His family said it was told he fell into a coma soon after his March 2016 sentencing after contracting botulism and taking a sleeping pill. Doctors had described Warmbier's condition as a state of "unresponsive wakefulness" and said he suffered a "severe neurological injury" of unknown cause.
Otto Warmbier left North Korea after being carried onto the plane to fly back to the United States.Upon arriving back in the US he was admitted to the University of Cincinnati #Medical Center with his family by his side.
THOMPSON: So from Ohio Senator Rob Portman, who has been very close to the family, he says that Otto Warmbier was such a promising young man.
"It's a brutal regime", the president said during a White House event.
He had been a student at the University of Virginia at the time - and was praised for his curiosity and intellect, USA Today reported.
Warmbier's death comes less than a month after two USA congressmen introduced a bill aimed at banning American tourists from visiting North Korea. "You've got to capitalize on this, and influence their internal debates to get them to recognize and acknowledge what happened".
The South Korean government will make every effort for the return of those held in North Korea, presidential spokesman Park Soo-hyun told a briefing.
As he attempted to leave the country to return home on January 2, he was arrested and detained at the airport.
Pyongyang said the 22-year-old was released on "humanitarian grounds", and refused to say his treatment during his imprisonment was a factor in his shockingly deteriorated state.
Delury said the Trump administration may try to pressure China to cut its large numbers of tourists to North Korea until the North apologizes and releases the other Americans.
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