Chicago: President Donald Trump slammed the "brutal regime" in Pyongyang following the death of Otto Warmbier, the United States student released in a coma last week after almost 18 months in detention in North Korea.
Doctors described Warmbier's condition as a state of "unresponsive wakefulness" and said he suffered a "severe neurological injury" of unknown cause.
"The very bad torturous mistreatment our son received at the hands of the North Koreans ensured that no other outcome was possible", the family said Monday announcing Warmbier's death.
However, not long after Spicer made those comments, President Trump appeared to place some blame on China for not applying enough pressure on the North.
Warmbier, who had been detained since March 2016, died in an OH hospital Monday, one week after the North Korean government medically evacuated him. Doctors in the USA said his condition was probably caused by a heart attack that cut the blood supply to his brain.
However, it said in a statement on its website yesterday that Mr Warmbier's death had "led us to reconsider our position on accepting American tourists".
The death of USA student Otto Warmbier has brought a wave of sorrow and a new stumbling block to any sort of negotiations between the United States and North Korea. Doctors, however, say there was no evidence that he suffered from that condition.
Hamilton County 's Dr. Lakshmi Sammarco's office released a statement saying Otto Warmbier's family objected to an autopsy so only an external exam of his body was done.
China-based Koryo Tours, which has been going to North Korea since 1993 and takes about 2,000 tourists there a year, said the tragedy had prompted it to reconsider taking United States citizens to the North.
"They just murdered him", McCain said. Justin Weber told The Associated Press on Tuesday morning that a press conference is expected later to provide details. He was traveling in China when he signed up, out of curiosity and a sense of adventure, for a four-day trip to North Korea.
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"We want to see three other Americans who were unjustly detained brought home as soon as possible", said spokesperson Heather Nauert.
Later that month, North Korea announces it is holding Mr Warmbier for a "hostile act".
White House press secretary Sean Spicer was peppered with questions about Warmbier's death during Tuesday's briefing, specifically whether the Trump administration "had anything to say to China" regarding the American college student's death.
Pyongyang returned Warmbier to the US on June 13 after reportedly being in a coma for a year.
Tensions between the United States and North Korea have been heightened by dozens of North Korean missile launches and two nuclear bomb tests since the beginning of previous year in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions.
The 22-year-old died Monday, less than a week after being released from a North Korean prison.
Kim Jong-Un's regime claimed that Warmbier contracted botulism and fell into a coma soon after being sentenced past year.
This story has been corrected to show the coroner's last name is Sammarco, not Sammaraco.
Otto Warmbier should never have been in jail for tearing down a stupid banner. They did not cite a specific cause of death.
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