UVA student who was imprisoned for 17 months in North Korea is airlifted back to America still in a COMA 'after he caught botulism in custody' - just hours after Dennis Rodman lands in the country

University of Virginia student Otto Warmbier, said to be in a coma, released from North Korea
By Anna Fifield and Karen DeYoung June 13 at 1:41 PM

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There was no immediate confirmation from U.S. officials of North Korea’s description of his illness — including whether he was stricken with botulism, a potentially fatal disease that is caused by a toxin but is not usually associated with loss of consciousness.

According to Trump administration officials, information about Warmbier’s condition was transmitted on June 6 by North Korea’s ambassador to the United Nations to Joseph Yun, the State Department’s special representative for North Korea, at a meeting in New York.

That meeting followed an earlier, secret meeting last month between Yun and high-level North Korean officials in Oslo. At that time, North Korea agreed that Swedish diplomats in Pyongyang, who handle U.S. affairs there, would be allowed for the first time to visit four Americans imprisoned by the North, including Warmbier.

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I've been looking for a follow up but thus far can oly find picture of
Otto Warmbier, a 22-year-old college student detained and imprisoned in North Korea, is carried off of an airplane at Lunken Airport in Cincinnati on Tuesday, June 13, 2017. (Sam Greene/The Cincinnati Enquirer via AP)

UPDATE:

Otto Warmbier has a 'SEVERE neurological injury': Father says there's 'no excuse' for what North Koreans did to his son as he blames the Obama administration for not doing enough to secure his release

Otto Warmbier has died days after release from North Korea, hospital says
WCPO Staff
4:32 PM, Jun 19, 2017
7 mins ago

CINCINNATI -- Otto Warmbier has died, University of Cincinnati Medical Center announced Monday.

Warmbier, 22, died at 2:20 p.m. Monday, days after he was released from captivity in North Korea. He was surrounded by family members at the time of his death, hospital officials said.

In a statement released by the hospital, family members said Warmbier had been unable to speak, see or react to verbal commands since his return to Cincinnati June 13.

"He looked very uncomfortable – almost anguished," family members said. "Although we would never hear his voice again, within a day the countenance of his face changed – he was at peace. He was home and we believe he could sense that."

Family members thanked the hospital's staff for the care they provided Warmbier but said " the awful torturous mistreatment our son received at the hands of the North Koreans ensured that no other outcome was possible beyond the sad one we experienced today."

"It would be easy at a moment like this to focus on all that we lost – future time that won’t be spent with a warm, engaging, brilliant young man whose curiosity and enthusiasm for life knew no bounds," the family said. "But we choose to focus on the time we were given to be with this remarkable person. You can tell from the outpouring of emotion from the communities that he touched – Wyoming, Ohio and the University of Virginia to name just two – that the love for Otto went well beyond his immediate family."

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