Death of North Korea's political pawn and hostage

reedak · Jun 19, 2017

Otto Warmbier, the 22-year-old student of University of Virginia, held for 17 months in prison with hard labour by the Kim regime for allegedly trying to steal a propaganda poster, had been in a coma since returning home from North Korea. He died less than a week after his release.

Prior to that, Donald Trump bragged before a crowd in Miami on Friday that he had brought American Otto Warmbier home. Now in response to Warmbier's death, Trump decried North Korea as a “brutal regime”.

Besides executing his own uncle, the North Korean dictator had committed such crimes as killing his half brother Kim Jong-nam with a chemical weapon. To force Malaysia to accede to his demands for the return of Kim Jong-nam's body and safe passage for the three North Korean criminals hiding in the embassy, the North Korean tyrant held three Malaysian diplomats and six family members - including four children - hostage in Pyongyang.

If Warmbier's captivity and death occurred before the Second World War, a thousand ships could have been launched in an American version of the Trojan War and North Korea would be bombed to ashes. Comparing such Middle East despots as Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi with the North Korean tyrant is just like comparing midgets with a giant monster. Those Middle East midgets had mostly perished from the earth but the North Korean devil incarnate is still at large doing all sorts of evils in this world. America's impotence against the North Korean devil incarnate shows that it is on a steady decline and could never stand up again. “Make America Great Again” is just an empty slogan.

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waltky · Jun 20, 2017

Otto Warmbier dies from torture injuries suffered in No. Korea...

Student Released from North Korea Last Week Has Died, Family Says
19 Jun 2017 - News of Otto Warmbier's death follows reports from doctors that he had suffered extensive brain damage.

Otto Warmbier, the American student who was detained and held in North Korea before being returned back to the U.S. earlier this month, has died, according to his family. He was 22 years old. News of Warmbier's death follows reports from doctors that Warmbier had suffered extensive brain damage and was unresponsive to his surroundings. Officials from the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, which treated the student upon his return, labeled his condition as a "state of unresponsive wakefulness."

While there was no physical evidence he was beaten, doctors said that Warmbier had suffered "extensive loss of brain tissue," suggesting he had lost blood supply to his brain for a period of time. The North Koreans told U.S. officials that Warmbier had suffered from botulism and then slipped into a coma after taking a sleeping pill but Cincinatti doctors said that their examination showed no evidence of botulism, the strong neurotoxin produced by a bacterium.

American student Otto Warmbier speaks as he is presented to reporters in Pyongyang, North Korea.

"It is our sad duty to report that our son, Otto Warmbier, has completed his journey home," Fred and Cindy Warmbier wrote in a statement. "Surrounded by his loving family, Otto died today at 2:20 pm." "It would be easy at a moment like this to focus on all that we lost - future time that won't be spent with a warm, engaging, brilliant young man whose curiosity and enthusiasm for life knew no bounds. But we choose to focus on the time we were given to be with this remarkable person. You can tell from the outpouring of emotion from the communities that he touched - Wyoming, Ohio and the University of Virginia to name just two - that the love for Otto went well beyond his immediate family."

"We would like to thank the wonderful professionals at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center who did everything they could for Otto. Unfortunately, the awful torturous mistreatment our son received at the hands of the North Koreans ensured that no other outcome was possible beyond the sad one we experienced today." "When Otto returned to Cincinnati late on June 13th he was unable to speak, unable to see and unable to react to verbal commands. He looked very uncomfortable - almost anguished. Although we would never hear his voice again, within a day the countenance of his face changed - he was at peace. He was home and we believe he could sense that." "We thank everyone around the world who has kept him and our family in their thoughts and prayers. We are at peace and at home too."

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Kim Jong Un Fears Assassination By Western 'Decapitation' Team: Report
19 Jun 2017 | The 33-year-old ruler is "extremely nervous" about a clandestine plot to take him out, according to a South Korean lawmaker.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is reportedly so terrified of being targeted for assassination that he travels incognito inside the Hermit Kingdom, and there's growing evidence his paranoia may be well-founded. The 33-year-old, third-generation ruler is "extremely nervous" about a clandestine plot to take him out, according to a key South Korean lawmaker who spoke to The Korea Herald. Rep. Lee Cheol-woo, chairman of the South Korean parliament's intelligence committee, made the claim based on reports from South Korea's intelligence agency. "Kim is engrossed with collecting information about the 'decapitation operation' through his intelligence agencies," Lee said following a briefing last week.

The rumored "decapitation plan" to target Kim and key deputies in the event fighting broke out on the peninsula first surfaced in late 2015, when the U.S. and South Korea signed "Operation Plan 5015," a joint strategy for possible war scenarios with North Korea. According to the Brookings Institute, the plan "envisions limited warfare with an emphasis on preemptive strikes on strategic targets in North Korea and "decapitation raids" to exterminate North Korean leaders." Something about the term "decapitation" seems to have gotten the attention of the gout-addled, unpredictable and violent dictator. According to Lee, Kim's is so frightened that he now disguises his movements, travels primarily at dawn and in the cars of his henchmen. Public appearances and jaunts in his prized Mercedes Benz 600 have been curtailed.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un salutes at a parade in Pyongyang, North Korea

North Korea's United Nations representative referenced the "beheading operation" in a sternly worded, 2016 letter to the body's Security Council, suggesting that the joint military operations regularly conducted by the U.S. and South Korea "constitute a grave threat to [North Korea] as well as international peace and security." By January of this year, there were reports that South Korea was speeding up the creation of a specialized unit designed for this mission, initially slated to be ready by 2019. During this year's Foal Eagle and Key Resolve exercises with South Korea, one of the largest annual military exercises in the world, members of U.S. Navy SEAL teams reportedly participated in decapitation drills with our South Korean counterparts for the first time. Naval officials denied reports that members of SEAL Team 6, the group that took out Usama Bin Laden, took part.

Shortly after those war games, however, the USS Michigan, a submarine that is sometimes used to move U.S. Special Forces, took a position just off of North Korea's coast. While there are concerns that taking out North Korea's leader might not be enough, a White House review revealed earlier this year that the U.S. strategy on North Korea does include the possibility of regime change. Kim has become a major problem regionally and for the U.S. as well. Pyongyang has repeatedly tested missiles potentially capable of delivering nuclear warheads and Kim's threats against South Korea, Japan and the U.S. have grown increasingly bellicose. Last week, North Korea returned American college student Otto Warmbier after holding him for 17 months on a dubious charge. Doctors say Warmbier underwent devastating brain injuries while in North Korean custody and is now in an unresponsive state. Three other U.S. citizens remain locked up in the reclusive nation's infamous gulags.

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Cornergas · Jun 22, 2017

You people are obviously brainwashed by the false news grinding out from the mainstream media in the USA...time to take some history lessons.....you want to see despotic regime? Check the GW Bush regime and their ruthless illegal invasion of Afghistan and Iraq...the Bush regime all members should be charged with war crimes, mass murder and treason...start looking a little closer to home if you want to find mass murderers, they are in Washington WH....btw you might also consider Bush role in 9/11 in which he allowed Mossad to demolish the WTC buildings and murder 3000 "Americans" right on American soil....what a despot he is!

yiostheoy · Jun 22, 2017

It's too bad that this college frat boy tried to cop the poster.

It cost him his life.

It is even more stupid to go to N.Korea for any reason these days. About as dumb as going to Syria and getting your head cut off.

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