North Korea sends US $2 million medical bill for Otto Warmbier’s care: report

[Mooshashi]

LOL...Rocket Man out smarts Trump AGAIN!. Remember that Kim was begging for international recognition, and Trump gave it to him on a silver platter. Kim out negotiated Trump, who left the first meeting with the announcement that Kim agree to "complete de-nuclearization of the Korean Penninsula...and that never happened. NOW we get a $2 million medical bill from Fatty Kim!

North Korea slapped the US with a $2 million bill for the hospital care of Otto Warmbier — forcing an American official to sign a pledge to fork over the money before being allowed to fly the comatose student back home from Pyongyang in 2017, according to a new report.
The US envoy sent to retrieve the University of Virginia student from the rogue regime signed an agreement to pay the bill on instructions passed down from President Trump, two people familiar with the situation told the Washington Post on condition of anonymity.
The invoice ended up at the Treasury Department, where it remained unpaid throughout 2017, the sources said. It was unclear whether Team Trump ultimately paid the bill or whether it came up in the run-up to the president’s two summits with Kim Jong Un.
The White House declined to comment to the newspaper about the bill, which was not previously disclosed by US or North Korean officials.
“We do not comment on hostage negotiations, which is why they have been so successful during this administration,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders wrote in an email to the New York Post.
Warmbier was arrested in January 2016 for allegedly stealing a propaganda poster while he was visiting Pyongyang with other Americans on a tour.

[TheGR8TESTOAT]

LOL...Rocket Man out smarts Trump AGAIN!. Remember that Kim was begging for international recognition, and Trump gave it to him on a silver platter. Kim out negotiated Trump, who left the first meeting with the announcement that Kim agree to "complete de-nuclearization of the Korean Penninsula...and that never happened. NOW we get a $2 million medical bill from Fatty Kim!

North Korea slapped the US with a $2 million bill for the hospital care of Otto Warmbier — forcing an American official to sign a pledge to fork over the money before being allowed to fly the comatose student back home from Pyongyang in 2017, according to a new report.
The US envoy sent to retrieve the University of Virginia student from the rogue regime signed an agreement to pay the bill on instructions passed down from President Trump, two people familiar with the situation told the Washington Post on condition of anonymity.
The invoice ended up at the Treasury Department, where it remained unpaid throughout 2017, the sources said. It was unclear whether Team Trump ultimately paid the bill or whether it came up in the run-up to the president’s two summits with Kim Jong Un.
The White House declined to comment to the newspaper about the bill, which was not previously disclosed by US or North Korean officials.
“We do not comment on hostage negotiations, which is why they have been so successful during this administration,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders wrote in an email to the New York Post.
Warmbier was arrested in January 2016 for allegedly stealing a propaganda poster while he was visiting Pyongyang with other Americans on a tour.

This whole thing was suspect as hell. I remember the news said the kid came back on a plane and then he fell into a coma soon as he landed?

Or was he really in a coma already being flown in?

Or was he really dead already? If so why pay 2 million for a body?

[Eff Pandas]

Checks in the mail.

It sounds like they killed that kid if I'm recalling the story right. F#ck North Korea with that bs.

[Eff Pandas]

This whole thing was suspect as hell. I remember the news said the kid came back on a plane and then he fell into a coma soon as he landed?

Or was he really in a coma already being flown in?

Or was he really dead already? If so why pay 2 million for a body?

Its worse then that.

The story is he was f#cked up by people in NK til he fell into a coma so wtf man if you think officials of your country can f#ck up some stupid dipsh^t kid & then send his country of origin the medical bill for the damage you put on this kid that required him needing medical attention in the first place.

Gtfo here with that bs.

[Eff Pandas]

Here's some more specifics on this situation for those unaware. Guy was a f#ckhead & I feel like his fate is very karmic, but f#ck North Korea for what they did to this kid all the same.

Otto Frederick Warmbier (December 12, 1994 – June 19, 2017) was an American college student who was imprisoned in North Korea in 2016. In June 2017, he was released by North Korea in a vegetative state and died soon afterward.

Warmbier had been traveling to Hong Kong for a study abroad program when he decided to visit North Korea on a guided tour, at the end of December 2015. On January 2, 2016, Warmbier was arrested at Pyongyang International Airport while awaiting departure from North Korea. He was accused of attempting to steal a propaganda poster from his hotel, for which he was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment with hard labor.

Shortly after his sentencing in March 2016, Warmbier suffered a severe neurological injury from an unconfirmed cause and fell into a coma, which lasted over a year. North Korean authorities did not disclose his medical condition until June 2017, when they announced he had fallen into a coma as a result of botulism and a sleeping pill. He was freed later that month, still in a comatose state after 17 months in captivity. He was repatriated to the United States and arrived in Cincinnati, Ohio on June 13, 2017. He was taken to University of Cincinnati Medical Center for immediate evaluation and treatment, where physicians found no evidence of botulism.

Warmbier never regained consciousness and died on June 19, 2017, six days after his return to the United States when his parents had requested his feeding tube be removed. A coroner's report stated that he died from an unknown injury causing lack of oxygen to the brain. Non-invasive internal scans did not find any signs of fractures to his skull.

In 2018, a U.S. federal court found the North Korean government liable for Warmbier's torture and death, in a default judgment in favor of Warmbier's parents after North Korea did not contest the case. In 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump caused controversy after saying that he believed the word of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un that Kim was not responsible for Warmbier's death. In response, Warmbier's parents criticised Trump for making excuses for Kim and "his evil regime".

Medical Condition

Warmbier's physicians at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center stated that he was in "a state of unresponsive wakefulness," commonly known as persistent vegetative state. He was able to breathe on his own and blink his eyes, but otherwise showed no signs of awareness of his environment, such as understanding language, nor did he initiate any purposeful movements.

Medical records from North Korea showed that Warmbier had been in this state since April 2016, one month after his conviction. During his release, the North Koreans provided a disc containing two magnetic resonance imaging brain scans, dated April and July 2016, showing damage to the brain.

According to his medical team, brain scans revealed Warmbier had suffered extensive loss of brain tissue throughout his brain, consistent with a cardiopulmonary event that caused the brain to be deprived of oxygen. Doctors said they did not know what caused the cardiac arrest, but that it could have been triggered by a respiratory arrest, while a neurointensive care specialist at the hospital stated that there was no evidence indicating botulism. They said physicians found no evidence of physical abuse or torture; scans of Warmbier's neck and head were normal outside of the brain injury. They added "We didn’t see any evidence of healing fractures or healed fractures that would have been within that time frame" and that "We believe that for somebody who had been bedridden for more than a year, that his body was in excellent condition, that his skin was in excellent condition".

Warmbier's father held a press conference on June 15 but declined to answer a reporter's question as to whether or not the neurological injury was caused by an assault, saying he would let the doctors make that determination. He stated that his family did not believe anything the North Koreans told them. He expressed anger at the North Koreans for his son's condition, saying, "There is no excuse for any civilized nation to have kept his condition secret, and denied him top-notch medical care for so long."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Warmbier

[REYESdelBOXEO]

The Divided States of America needs to pay up or get nuked to smithereens.

Kim Jong-Un got his finger on the trigger and he's ready to send trum's orange hair piece flying sky high.

[Eddy Current]

It's sad how badly Kim is making Trump his bitch.

[Mooshashi]

It's sad how badly Kim is making Trump his bitch.

Notice that no Trumpturds have jumped into this thread....

[KING MEAT]

NK successfully applied their termination technique in real time.
im sure theyve been experimenting with their own prisoners how to kill someone without killing them.
then applied to otto. good riddance tho. that white boy deserved it.

[MOTHERDUCKER]

Notice that no Trumpturds have jumped into this thread....

There is no link to the article and lower down it says they didn't even pay North Korea the 2m