The official story offered by the North Koreans was that Warmbier had been in a coma for over a year before he was released after contracting botulism while in custody and taking a sleeping pill.
Otto Warmbier's parents kept his Jewishness - and his love of Israel - a secret throughout his captivity in North Korea, so as not to embarrass the oppressive regime, according to The Times of Israel.
The Ohio coroner's office said on Tuesday that it had not been able to determine the cause of Warmbier's death after carrying out an external examination. "The most caring, loving and respectful man I ever knew".
He was sentenced in March 2016 to 15 years in prison with hard labor.
Warmbier's father Fred told reporters that his son was lured to North Korea, as other USA tourists have been, by tour groups run out of China.
Trump's statement, delivered in an nearly cavalier tweet on Tuesday, was an extraordinary admission of failure in his strategy for dealing with the North Korean regime of Kim Jong-un, New York Times said.
He blasted South Korea, accusing it of seeking to exploit Warmbier's death to press its own demand for the release of six South Korean detainees.
A public memorial for Warmbier was scheduled to be held Thursday morning at Wyoming High School, officiated by Rabbi Jake Rubin, the University of Virginia campus Hillel director who traveled with Warmbier to Israel, The Times of Israel reported. Hunziker was detained in North Korea for months in 1996 for illegally crossing the border and committed suicide less than a month after he returned to the United States later that year.
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His family had no news of him until 13 June when Pyongyang announced he had been in a coma since his trial, attributing it to botulism.
Still, I do not understand why anyone in his right mind (except for journalists and other professionals) would even go to North Korea.
"There had not been any previous detainment in North Korea that has ended with such tragic finality and we have been struggling to process the result".
Doctors last week said Warmbier had suffered severe neurological injuries, for which tests did not conclusively reveal the cause.
In a briefing to journalists before the meeting, the State Department said the talks would focus on ways to increase pressure on North Korea, but also cover such areas as counterterrorism and territorial rivalries in the South China Sea.
North Korean officials told US envoys that Warmbier contracted botulism after his trial and lapsed into a coma after taking a sleeping pill.
Dr. Daniel Laskowitz, a professor of neurology at Duke University, told NBC News that to suddenly die after several months in a "persistent vegetative state" would be the result of either an infection or a blood clot.
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