Posted on 09/27/2017 10:35:41 PM PDT by sparklite2
An American student who had been imprisoned in North Korea for 17 months died from lack of oxygen and blood to the brain, an Ohio coroner said on Wednesday.
Otto Warmbier’s death on June 19 was due to an unknown injury that occurred more than a year before his death, Hamilton County Coroner Dr. Lakshmi Sammarco said at a news conference.
In response to a question at the news conference, the coroner said there was no evidence of trauma to Warmbier’s teeth nor was there evidence of broken bones.
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It was a rare strain of nk induced lack of oxygen and blood to the brain. Happens all the time.
Almost sounds like they water boarded the poor kid to death.
what the H was this kid doing in NK in the first place?
There is no sane reason to ever travel to that He!!hole.
I hoped they would be able to be more specific on the probable cause of death. Plenty of things can cause hypoxia: drugs, injuries, near-drowning, etc. I’d like to know what the Norks did to him.
There are roughly 4,000 non-Chinese/non-South Korean tourists who enter North Korea yearly.
One group of thirty-odd German railroad enthusiasts went in 2014 and a documentary was made over the group’s visit. Some people go just to visit the sixteen subway stations in Pyongang (all resemble some Hollywood-like subway station out of the 1950s). There’s some supposed to be some new ski-resort being built and they were talking about 50,000 people a year flying into it...but pictures from April of this year showed the world-class resort virtually empty.
In some ways, if they had some benevolent dictator who wasn’t killing people left and right....they’d be sitting on a tourist gold-mine. There would be a dozen flights weekly between Pyongyang and New York City, with Americans begging for a week of vacation in some ‘oppressive regime’. They could make this in one giant Disneyland and make ten-billion dollars a year on tourism easily.
The parents thought his teeth looked different, but the coroner said nothing was wrong with them. There seems to be a discrepancy here. You would think a federal autopsy would be performed in an international situation such as this.
In Cincinnati, coroners are elected. Who elects a neuroradiologist over an emergency room doctor to be a coroner?
AFAIC, we need to murder a North Korean in retalliation. tit for tat. no slight should go unanswered with this regime. But we won’t and it will be correctly perceived as lack of resolve. They have already beaten us and they know it.
I can think of one reason to travel to that hellhole.
People travel there ....three govt sanctioned tour companies from Peking to Pyongyang
About 100,000 folks a year
Kid was naive at worst.....died for it
Very sad.....to me anyhow
Put pressure on the carotid artery long enough and there will be brain death. Do it often enough more and more brain dies.
This is actually something he could have done to himself. Not saying he did but with the long sentence he was given; I wouldn’t rule out suicide.
Failed suicide by hanging IMHO.
Exactly. The only US citizens allowed to travel to North Korea should be B2 bomber crews.
I hope all my buddies in the Air Force name a special bomb after him. Warmbier’s away!!!!!
Don’t worry RC, lots of North Koreans are going to die soon. Unfortunately, not the right ones are going to die.
Jack became a fixture in my youth. His mother, Mary, was my sixth grade teacher [1950s]. Several times a year we would gather personal care supplies in shoe boxes, write letters; and his mom would send them through the Red Cross.
Jack's mom kept his plight in the fore. Jack was held for 20 years by the Chinese, during the cold war. Details about his capture were very hush-hush; no one ever revealed what really happened. As far as I knew, Downey never talked about it. CIA written account: " Two CIA Prisoners in China, 1952–73"
When he finally came home, he went to law school and became a judge in Connecticut; what amazed me, he carried on with life without skipping a beat.
I saw the interview with his parents...seem to be quite intelligent and level-headed. This discrepancy between what they saw and what the coroner is saying is very puzzling.
The family would not allow a full autopsy.
I doubt it.
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