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# Otto Warmbier Dies After Being Released From North Korean Imprisonment, Family Says

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## Video: Otto Warmbier Dies After Being Released From North Korean Imprisonment, Family Says

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_Published 2017-06-19. Otto Warmbier, the American student who was released last week after being detained in North Korea for more than a year, died Monday afternoon, his family said._


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### Otto Warmbier Suffered 'Severe' Brain Injury in North Korea

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### Otto Warmbier, who was held in North Korea for 17 months, has returned to the U.S.

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### North Korea Releases Jailed American Student Otto Warmbier

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## Transcript

Please, save this poor and innocent scapegoat. [ MUSIC ] The most important diagnostic test thus far, was a magnetic resonance imaging scan of brain. This study Showed extensive loss of brain tissue in all regions of the brain. We have no certain or verifiable knowledge of the cause or circumstances of his neurological injury. This pattern of brain injury however, is usually seen As a result of cardiopulmonary arrest where the blood supply to the brain is inadequate for a period of time resulting in the death of brain tissue. [ MUSIC ] [ SOUND ] Even if you believe their explanation of botulism and a sleeping pill causing the coma, and we don't, there is not excuse for any civilized nation to have kept his condition secret.

And denied him top- notch medical care for so long. [ MUSIC ]

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