WYOMING, OH - JUNE 15: Friends and family listen as Fred Warmbier, father of Otto Warmbier, the 22-year-old college student who was released from a North Korean prison on Tuesday, holds a press conference while wearing the jacket his son wore when he gave a forced confession in North Korea June 15, 2017 in Wyoming, Ohio. Otto Warmbier spent 17 months in a North Korean prison after being sentenced to 15 years for allegedly attempting to steal a propaganda poster. Warmbier is currently in a coma at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)
A video released by Otto Warmbier’s family shows him smiling at a location in North Korea before his detainment.
The 22-year-old American was recently released from detainment in a state of severe medical trauma. He is believed to have suffered major brain damage in detention.
North Korea arrested Warmbier while he was on a student trip. The dictatorship said he tried to take a propaganda poster. He was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor.
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)
He was released with U.S. intervention after North Korean officials admitted he was in a coma.
