Parents of an American who died after a trip to the DPRK, sued North Korea

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Fred and Cindy Wormbiry accuse the DPRK authorities of the abuse and torture of their son, as a result of which he was killed.

"Otto was captured as a hostage and held captive for political purposes ... he was subjected to exceptionally ill-treatment," the statement of Fred Warmbir says. He accused the regime of Kim Jong-un of deliberately destroying the life of his son.

The lawsuit describes the moral suffering of the Warbier family after they learned about the detention of their son by the North Korean authorities. Otto went to the DPRK before starting his training program in Hong Kong, he sought to understand how people living in a country closed from the whole world live.

Otto's parents claim that the DPRK authorities put pressure on Otto, after which he wrote down an appeal for North Korean TV. Warbier repented of his "crime against the Korean people", and then was convicted of "subversive activities." The trial of his case lasted exactly one hour. He was refused a request to contact his relatives.

In 2017, the North Korean authorities contacted Washington and reported that Otto Warbier had been in a coma for a year already.

The lawsuit states that the young man’s parents were “shocked at the state he was in” after his return to his homeland. Otto went blind and deaf. He was fed through a probe, occasionally convulsions shook him. He did not respond to any attempts to contact him. In addition, his parents noticed that his teeth were displaced, and there was a lacerated wound on his left leg.

DPRK authorities stated that Warbier contracted botulism, but American doctors did not find any traces of botulinum toxins in his body. Thus, according to the lawsuit, the North Korean authorities tried to conceal information about the torture Otto was subjected to in custody.

The authors of the lawsuit claim that North Korea is responsible for the death of Warbier. Parents say that the regime killed an American student without trial, and they are asked to compensate them for material and moral damage.

The sum of the material claims of the parents of Wormbier to Pyongyang is not disclosed.

The DPRK mission to the UN did not respond to the request of the Republic of Azerbaijan regarding the lawsuit of Otto Uormbir’s parents.

According to Azerbaijan, three more US citizens are still being held in North Korean prisons. Their fate is unknown, and this issue is another reason for tensions between the DPRK and the United States. Sources at the White House agency said that Mike Pompeo, who had just been appointed US Senate by the Senate, raised this issue during negotiations with Kim Jong-un, which took place in early April.

Otto Wormbier’s parents accused the North Korean authorities of torturing their son back in September 2017. However, American pathologists who examined the body of a young man did not find "no signs of injury."

An American student was arrested in 2016 year during a tourist trip to the DPRK. He was accused of stealing a propaganda poster from a hotel and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. When he fell ill and fell into a coma, he was sent to the USA. He died in a hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio, a few days after his arrival.