citizens it has detained for crimes against the state. North Korea said last month it was its sovereign right to 'ruthlessly punish' U.S. The South Korean government will make every effort for the return of those held in North Korea, a presidential spokesman Park Soo-hyun told a briefing. South Korea's Blue House on Tuesday cited Moon as saying 'it is very deplorable that North Korea does not respect human rights'. President Donald Trump blamed the 'brutality of the North Korean regime' for Warmbier's death.
Warmbier, 22, who was arrested in North Korea while visiting as a tourist, had been described by doctors caring for him last week as having extensive brain damage that left him in a state of 'unresponsive wakefulness'. citizens, who are ethnic Koreans, and six South Koreans remain in custody in North Korea. South Korea's President Moon Jae-in said on Tuesday North Korea should swiftly return South Koreans and Americans detained in the reclusive nation.Īmerican university student Otto Warmbier, who had been held prisoner in North Korea for 17 months, died at a Cincinnati hospital on Monday just days after North Korea released him from captivity in a coma, his parent said.
