Fred Warmbier: No excuse for North Korea ‘brutalizing’ our son

Otto Warmbier, the U.S. college student detained in North Korea for more than a year, suffered a serious neurological injury, according to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. Warmbier, 22, is in stable condition but remains in a coma. His parents found out about his condition last week, just days before North Korea agreed to send him home. Warmbier reportedly lapsed into a coma in March 2016, the day after a North Korean court sentenced him to 15 years in prison with hard labor for stealing a propaganda banner from a Pyongyang hotel. Fred Warmbier told reporters today he does not believe North Korea’s story that a case of botulism and a sleeping pill caused his son’s condition. “There’s no excuse for the way the North Koreans treated our son,” he said. During an interview on Fox News last night, Fred Warmbier said the North Korean regime “terrorized and brutalized” his son. North Korea’s state-run Korean Central News Agency said it released Warmbier for humanitarian reasons. He traveled back to the United States in a medical transport plane.

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