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OTTO Warmbier was a 22-year-old US student who visited Pyongyang in 2016 on his way to Hong Kong where he was going to study. North Korean authorities accused him of committing a hostile act against the country by stealing a propaganda poster from his hotel. He was arrested at the airport while trying to leave the country.

After appearing in a televised show trial he gave a tearful press conference where he confessed and begged for forgiveness.

But his pleas fell on deaf ears and he was sentenced to 15 years of hard labour in March 2016. From that day nothing was heard from him for more than 15 months until he was returned to the US in a vegetative state. His parents told how their son came home blind, deaf, howling and jerking violently on the aircraft.

The North Korean people live under dictatatorial rule and around 200.000 North Koreans suffer brutal torture in concentration camps.