2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
The American student Otto Warmbier who traveled to North Korea last year, was arrested by the authorities of that country because he had stolen a poster and was released this week in a coma, he continues to generate interest. These are six facts you should know about its history:
1. According to The New York Times, the prominent student of economics and finance at the University of Virginia decided to travel with the Young Pioneer Tours company on a five-day tour to North Korea in late 2015. When he returned to the United States Together, he was detained at the airport accused of having stolen a government propaganda banner with the photo of President Kim Jong. This is a serious crime in there.
2. North Korean authorities released a video showing someone removing a poster from a wall, but his face is not visible and his parents have always denied that his son committed this crime. However, the young man appeared in court admitting his guilt and pleading for mercy, a request that was ignored. His hour-long trial ended with a 15-year sentence of forced labor.
3. After several secret diplomatic negotiations, the North Korean government agreed to release the now 22-year-old on Tuesday. As his son traveled to the United States, his parents Fred and Cindy Warmbier told the press: "We want the world to know how our son and we have been brutalized and terrorized by the outcast regime in North Korea."
4. The young man, who traveled to that country moved by his adventurous spirit and his passion to know the world, returned in a coma. According to his doctors at the University of Cincinnati Health hospital, the young man suffered an "extensive loss of brain tissue" and "does not show" signs of language comprehension. " Likewise, Dr. Daniel Kanter, professor of neurology and director of the Neurocritical Care Program, said that the boy had "suffered serious injuries in all regions of the brain."
5. The government that imprisoned him said that the young man had contracted botulism, a powerful neurotoxin produced by a bacterium that causes the nerves to not function properly. But the doctors who are treating him in the United States have categorically contradicted that theory and believe that the young man suffered a cardiopulmonary arrest, which means that for some time he lost oxygen in his brain - but they don't know how that happened.
6. A few hours ago, The Washington Post reported that Danny Gratton, the tourist from England who shared the room with Warmbier on that trip, stated that during his time with him, he never saw suspicious behavior or any intention to steal. something in there. "Otto was just a really spectacular boy who fell into the most dire situation anyone could imagine," he said. "It is something that I believe that in the western world we cannot understand, we simply fail to understand the evil behind that dictatorship."
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