Revere never met or spoke with Otto Warmbier and was not directly involved with the negotiations for his release, which were handled between the State Department and the North Koreans. He died less than a week after returning from North Korea.
The spokesman also said that "groundless" speculation of torture and beatings could be refuted by American doctors who came to the North to examine Warmbier before his release and allegedly acknowledged that North Korean doctors had "brought him back alive" after his heart almost stopped.
North Korea said on Friday the death of Otto Warmbier soon after his return home was a mystery and dismissed accusations that he had died because of torture and beating during his captivity as "groundless".
The former National Basketball Association bad boy arrived in the Hermit Kingdom on the same day the 22-year-old was released in a coma after 18 months in captivity. South Korean President Moon Jae-in said in an interview with CBS television earlier this week that it was clear North Korea bears a heavy responsibility for Warmbier's death.
Warmbier was traveling in North Korea with a tour group, and was arrested at Pyongyang airport as he was about to leave. "We went to buy propaganda posters together, so why in the world would he risk so much to steal a trivial poster?" Relatives say they were told the 22-year-old University of Virginia student had been in a coma since shortly after he was sentenced to prison in North Korea in March 2016.
Despite the spokesman's comments, The Guardian reported that U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is skeptical about North Korea's treatment of Warmbier.
"By the time they arrested Otto, they knew they were going to have a nuclear weapons test", Terry said.
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Upon his return to the USA, doctors who examined Warmbier said the former University of Virginia student had incurred significant brain damage and was in a state of "unresponsive wakefulness".
In a prepared statement about Mr. Warmbier, McCain, the Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said, "In the final year of his life, he lived the nightmare in which the North Korean people have been trapped for 70 years: forced labor, mass starvation, systematic cruelty, torture, and murder".
When the North Koreans began calling their American hostages "prisoners of war", Revere realized the situation was changing. He said North Korea's treatment of Warmbier demonstrated "a basic disregard for human rights, for human dignity".
"South Korea must realize that following psychopath Trump.will only lead to disaster", an editorial carried by the paper said.
"It's unsafe", Corker said, adding that the "trumped up charges" like those Warmbier was accused of "can continue to happen".
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