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US court awards Warmbier family US$240,000 seized from North Korea

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According to the 2018 ruling, when he finally returned home after 17 months Warmbier had gone blind and deaf, his once straight teeth were misaligned and his eyes bulged out, the ruling said. He died six days later. (File photo by= Reuters/Kyodo)

[Asia News = Reporter Reakkana] SEOUL: A United States court has awarded the family of Otto Warmbier, the American student who died after being jailed by Pyongyang, US$240,000 seized from a North Korean bank, court records showed, AFP reported.

The 22-year-old Warmbier, who was detained in North Korea for allegedly removing a propaganda poster from his hotel, died days after being sent back to the United States in a coma in 2017. His parents, Cynthia and Frederick Warmbier, sued North Korea for the alleged torture and murder of their son, with a US judge ordering Pyongyang to pay them US$501 million in 2018. Last week, Judge Lawrence Kahn of the Northern District Court of New York approved the seizure of the funds from North Korea's Korea Kwangson Banking Corporation after they failed to respond to a forfeiture order.


Otto Warmbier, an Ohio native who studied at the University of Virginia, traveled to North Korea on a tour in 2016. According to the 2018 ruling, when he finally returned home after 17 months, Warmbier was attached to a feeding tube and was howling with incomprehensible noises. Warmbier had gone blind and deaf, his once straight teeth were misaligned and his eyes bulged out, the ruling said. North Korea at the time blamed his condition on medicine they said he took for botulism.