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Otto Warmbier

American student Otto Frederick Warmbier, center, arrives at a court for his trial in Pyongyang, capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, on March 16, 2015. (Xinhua/ Lu Rui via Getty Images)
November 22, 2019, 9:07 am
Parents of Otto Warmbier chase illicit North Korean assets worldwide
‘We cannot give up, we can’t give them a pass,’ mother of Jewish student who died after being held by Pyongyang says of efforts to hold regime accountable for rights abuses
By KIM TONG-HYUNG
American student Otto Frederick Warmbier, center, arrives at a court for his trial in Pyongyang, capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, on March 16, 2015. (Xinhua/ Lu Rui via Getty Images)
September 16, 2019, 8:30 pm
Otto Warmbier’s parents dine with Trump at White House
Fred and Cindy Warmbier earlier this year criticized US president over his ‘lavish praise’ of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un
By JTA
Otto Warmbier arriving at a court for his trial in Pyongyang, North Korea, March 16, 2015. (Xinhua/Lu Rui via Getty Images/JTA)
July 7, 2019, 2:36 am
Parents of detained student who died sue for seized North Korean ship
Family of Otto Warmbier claims right to cargo vessel after Pyongyang refuses to respond to $501 million wrongful death judgement
By AP
Otto Warmbier arriving at a court for his trial in Pyongyang, North Korea, March 16, 2015. (Xinhua/Lu Rui via Getty Images/JTA)
April 28, 2019, 11:52 pm
Bolton says US stiffed North Korea after promising to pay for Warmbier
National security adviser says Washington agreed to pay $2 million for release of Jewish student, who died shortly after returning to US
By ToI Staff
In this March 16, 2016, file photo, American student Otto Warmbier is escorted at the Supreme Court in Pyongyang, North Korea. Warmbier, whose parents say has been in a coma while serving a 15-year prison term in North Korea, was released and returned to the United States Tuesday, June 13, 2017, as the Trump administration revealed a rare exchange with the reclusive country. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin, File)
April 26, 2019, 6:59 pm
Trump denies paying North Korea for release of US Jewish student Otto Warmbier
Reports said a US official was made to sign a pledge to pay $2m in medical costs before being allowed to bring home the comatose torture victim, who died days after his return
By AFP
Michael Cohen, US President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, testifies before the US House Oversight and Reform Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on February 27, 2019. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)
March 4, 2019, 6:02 am
Trump says Congress grilling of Cohen contributed to his summit ‘walk’
US president’s former lawyer testified he was a racist, conman and a cheat at the same time as he was meeting the North Korean leader for nuclear talks
By AFP
US President Donald Trump speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, on March 2, 2019. (Nicholas Kamm / AFP)
March 3, 2019, 5:03 am
Trump ridicules ‘socialist’ Democrats, other foes in rhapsody to conservatives
Two-hour speech to CPAC, much of it off the cuff, veers from attacks on Jeff Sessions and Green New Deal to defending comments on Otto Warmbier’s death
By KEVIN FREKING
Fred Warmbier, right, and Cindy Warmbier, parents of Otto Warmbier, a Jewish American who died days after his release from captivity in North Korea, wait for a meeting on May 3, 2018, at the United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
March 1, 2019, 6:24 pm
Rebuking Trump, Warmbier family says North Korea’s Kim to blame for son’s death
Parents of Jewish American college student insist they hold ‘evil regime’ in Pyongyang responsible for his death, after US president says he takes autocrat ‘at his word’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
President Donald Trump meets North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019, in Hanoi. (AP/Evan Vucci)
March 1, 2019, 1:57 am
Trump says he trusts North Korea’s Kim on Warmbier death, drawing fire
President says he takes dictator at his word that he did not know about harsh treatment of Jewish American student jailed by regime
By AP
Otto Warmbier, center, is escorted at the Supreme Court in Pyongyang, North Korea, March 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin)
December 24, 2018, 11:10 pm
US court orders North Korea to pay $500 million to family of Otto Warmbier
Judge awards family of late Jewish student approximately half the $1.05 billion they requested in their punitive damages lawsuit
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Fred Warmbier, right, listens as his wife Cindy Warmbier speaks of their son Otto Warmbier, an American who died last year, days after his release from captivity in North Korea during a meeting Thursday, May 3, 2018, at the United Nations headquarters. (AP/Frank Franklin II)
June 13, 2018, 12:43 am
Otto Warmbier’s parents thank Trump for praise at Kim summit
US president called student who died after being freed from North Korean prison a ‘very special person;’ family hopes ‘something positive can come’
By Matthew Lee
Otto Warmbier arriving at a court for his trial in Pyongyang, North Korea, March 16, 2015. (Xinhua/Lu Rui via Getty Images/JTA)
June 12, 2018, 3:10 pm
Trump: Kim summit ‘may not have happened without Otto Warmbier’
‘Otto did not die in vain,’ says US president, claiming death of US Jewish student, whom North Koreans jailed and later sent home comatose, focused attention on secretive nation
By Sue Surkes
US President Donald Trump speaks as he stands with Tony Kim, second left, Kim Dong Chul, center right, and Kim Hak Song, right, three Americans detained in North Korea for more than a year, after they arrived at Andrews Air Force Base in Md., Thursday, May 10, 2018. Vice President Mike Pence, left, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, second from right, listen. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
May 10, 2018, 7:21 pm
Summit is set: Trump-Kim to meet June 12 in Singapore
US president boards plane to greet three former detainees released by Pyongyang ahead of first US-North Korea summit since 1953
By Matthew Lee, Jill Colvin and Zeke Miller
Fred Warmbier, right, listens as his wife Cindy Warmbier speaks of their son Otto Warmbier, an American who died last year, days after his release from captivity in North Korea during a meeting Thursday, May 3, 2018, at the United Nations headquarters. (AP/Frank Franklin II)
May 4, 2018, 5:15 am
Mother of Otto Warmbier speaks out to embarrass North Korea
Cindy Warmbier says death of son after imprisonment by Pyongyang won’t be in vain if she can highlight abuses by Kim Jong-Un regime
By AP
US President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, April 9, 2018. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP)
May 3, 2018, 4:56 am
Trump hints of imminent news on Americans detained in North Korea
‘Stay tuned!’ says US president on fate of Kim Hak-song, Kim Sang-duk and Kim Dong-chul, as he prepares for historic summit meeting with Kim Jong Un
By AFP
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