"Although we had no reason at all to show mercy to such a criminal of the enemy state, we provided him with medical treatments and care with all sincerity on humanitarian basis until his return to the U.S., considering that his health got worse", the agency quoted an unidentified Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying.
In Warmbier's home state of OH, the mourners - among them friends and family - attended his funeral at his former high school.
North Korea said Friday that the death of Otto Warmbier, a 22-year-old American imprisoned in the country for 17 months, is a "complete mystery" to them.
U.S. doctors say he suffered a "severe neurological injury", the most likely cause of which was a cardiopulmonary arrest that had cut the blood supply to the brain.
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Warmbier was accused of trying to steal a propaganda banner while visiting North Korea in 2015 and was later convicted of subversion.
The senator says the next step is tightening sanctions against North Korea.
He died on Monday, less than a week after returning to the United States.
"No conclusions about the cause and manner of Mr. Warmbier's death have been drawn at this time as there are additional medical records and imaging to review and people to interview", the coroner's office said in its statement.
The exact cause of Warmbier's death remains unclear.
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Four soldiers who had been present at the party and who filmed Palmer's sexual assault were charged with "peeping Tom" counts . Countless women have run up against this legal loophole after experiencing consensual sex that turns into rape.
For months, Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and top aides have staked any progress dealing with North Korea's burgeoning nuclear programme on China's involvement.
Warmbier's parents said their son had been in a coma for more than a year before he was medically evacauted from North Korea.
The family spokesman, Mickey Bergman, told The Times of Israel that the family chose not to disclose Warmbier's Judaism as negotiations went forward so as not to embarrass North Korea, which had announced that Warmbier stole the poster on orders from the Friendship United Methodist Church in Wyoming, Ohio.
Mr Warmbier was scheduled to graduate this year from the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce.
The article also criticized South Korea for using Warmbier's case to seek the release of other detainees, including six South Korean citizens.
Warmbier grew up in the Cincinnati area in Wyoming, Ohio.
President Donald Trump has slammed the treatment of 22-year-old American Otto Warmbier, who spent more than a year in detention in the secretive state, as "a total disgrace". But they found no evidence that he had contracted botulism, casting doubt on North Korea's claim that he fell into a coma after contracting botulism and taking a sleeping pill.
Warmbier's death has heightened tensions aggravated by dozens of North Korean missile launches and two nuclear bomb tests since past year.
The United States flew two supersonic bombers over the Korean Peninsula on Tuesday, June 20 in a show of force against North Korea, South Korean officials said, according to the Associated Press.
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