North Korea on Friday accused the USA of waging a "smear campaign" over the death of a student who was sent back home in a coma, denying he was tortured or abused.
A University of DE professor is under fire for saying that the college student who died after being held prisoner in North Korea "got exactly what he deserved".
In an interview with Good Morning America on Friday, former National Basketball Association star Dennis Rodman suggested he helped secure Otto Warmbier's release from detention in North Korea.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had said on Thursday that the United States pressed China to ramp up economic and political pressure on North Korea, during his meeting with top Chinese diplomats and defense chiefs.
U.S. President Donald Trump blamed "the brutality of the North Korean regime" for Warmbier's death and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who had advocated dialogue with the North, said Pyongyang had a "heavy responsibility" in the events leading up to the American's death.
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".
The 22-year-old American university student was arrested while visiting North Korea as a tourist, accused of stealing a propaganda poster and sentenced to 15 years in prison with hard labor. Through statements on KCNA, North Korea said it dealt with him according to its domestic laws and global standards.
Warmbier was released from jail after being held captive for 17 months for allegedly stealing a propaganda poster and flown back to the USA on June 13.
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The spokesman said it was a "mystery" as to why Warmbier died days after returning home, but compared his death to the case of another American detainee, Evan Hunziker.
Warmbier was released earlier in June with severe neurological trauma after months spent in a coma.
North Korea still holds Kim Sang Duk and Kim Hak-song, academics who worked at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, and a businessman named Kim Dong Chul.
"[It] compels us to make firm determination that. we should further sharpen the blade of law", he said, adding "the United States should ponder over the consequences to be entailed from its reckless and rash act".
Warmbier's family said they believe otherwise. And the focus on his dying "suddenly" after returning to the USA sounds like an attempt to blame his care here rather than what happened to him there. Warmbier died on Monday, June 19.
In the days following his death, North Korea's state media claimed Warmbier's death was a "mystery", according to CNN.
"There's no excuse for the way the North Koreans treated our son". Three Americans remain in custody in North Korea.
The two-time contestant of "Celebrity Apprentice" also used the interview to encourage President Trump to make more of an effort with North Korea.
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