Coroner: Otto Warmbier's family objected to autopsy

Warmbier had been arrested in January 2016, accused of trying to steal a propaganda poster from the hotel where he was spending his five-day trip.

The company that organized the trip that took US student Otto Warmbier to North Korea announced Monday that they would no longer take Americans to the Hermit Kingdom after the 22-year-old died, days after he was released back to his home country.

Warmbier was released from North Korea with severe neurological damage last week.

In the assessment by the United States team who came to check up on Warmbier, they reported that Warmbier had suffered severe brain damage and was medically evacuated from North Korea on 13 June to a hospital in his home city of Cincinnati, Ohio.

The Trump administration doesn't need an act of Congress to bar Americans from traveling to North Korea.

"I just wanted to pass on word that Otto Warmbier has just passed away".

He was in a coma when the North Koreans released him in June after serving 18 months in prison.

North Korea said Warmbier went into a coma after contracting botulism and taking a sleeping pill.

US President Donald Trump called Warmbier's detainment and death a "total disgrace". Almost all Americans who have gone to North Korea have left without incident.

"We had no higher priority than securing the release of Americans detained overseas", Price said. "They're used as bargaining chips". He also did a stint in Cuba, taught English in China and has made it into Eritrea, an African country undergoing border tensions with Ethiopia.

There have been reports that North Korea has been bracing for a preemptive United States missile strike similar to the missile strike on the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in response to the April 4 attack with chemical weapons.

For their part, Warmbier's family seemed appreciative of the role the Trump administration played in bringing their son home.

Relatives say Otto Warmbier died Monday. Warmbier's parents have not cited a specific cause of death, but pointed to "awful, torturous mistreatment" by North Korea.

"He was home and we believe he could sense that", they added.

It continued: "It would be easy at a moment like this to focus on all that we lost - future time that won't be spent with a warm, engaging, brilliant young man whose curiosity and enthusiasm for life knew no bounds".

The family added that they are also "at peace" and "at home".

"Working with such a country, we must achieve the goal of the complete dismantlement of North Korea's nuclear program", Moon said.

The death of 22-year-old Otto Warmbier - unconscious after a year imprisoned in North Korea - is prompting tough talk from President Trump. North Korea's demands include a peace treaty to officially end the Korean War and the removal of US troops from the Korean Peninsula. When asked whether the previous administration could've done more, Fred Warmbier said "I think the results speak for themselves" and praised Trump as "kind".

He said Warmbier's death shows "we must now have the perception that North Korea is an irrational regime", but that dialogue with the North is still needed because sanctions and pressure haven't resolved the North Korea nuclear issue.

In this February 29, 2016, photo, American student Otto Warmbier cries while speaking to reporters in Pyongyang, North Korea. John McCain said that Americans who are "stupid" enough to still want to visit North Korea should be required to sign a waiver absolving the USA government of any blame if they're harmed while there. No ban is imminent, but deliberations gained new urgency after Warmbier's death, said the official, who requested anonymity to discuss internal diplomatic discussions.

Trump's blunt tweet thrusts the typically off-the-cuff President - who cast himself as America's greatest deal-maker during the 2016 campaign - into the perilously sensitive arena of worldwide diplomacy.