Former North Korea detainee: Warmbier probably isn’t getting much info

According to the North’s official KCNA news agency, Warmbier entered North Korea as a tourist and “was caught committing a hostile act against the state”, which it said was “tolerated and manipulated by the usa government”.

The student, who arrived on a tourist visa, was being questioned by North Korean officials after taking part in “anti-state activity”, the official Korean Central News Agency said in a short statement Friday.

South Korea on Saturday reiterated its calls for coordination with regional powers over North Korea’s nuclear programs as the US voiced its support for five-way nuclear talks. He says family members and others should be careful not to say anything that might jeopardize negotiations.

However, China’s leverage over Pyongyang is mitigated by its overriding fear of a North Korean collapse and the prospect of a reunified, US-allied Korea directly on its border.

North Korea has a long history of detaining foreigners, and the U.S. and Canadian governments advise against travel there.

School spokesman Anthony de Bruyn would only say that the school “has been in touch with Otto Warmbier’s family and will have no additional comment at this time”.

The University of Virginia’s website lists an undergraduate with that name at the McIntire School of Commerce, the university’s business school.

– United Nations human rights special rapporteur for North Korea Marzuki Darusman said supreme leader Kim Jong Un should be held criminally responsible for failing to improve atrocious human rights conditions in the country since he took over.

CNN reported two weeks ago that a man who identified himself as Kim Dong Chul was an American citizen being held on espionage charges.

North Korea has previously released or deported US detainees after high-profile Americans visited the country. The married father of three attends church regularly with his family and returned to work with the city of Moraine street department near Dayton.

“We can confirm that the reports that one of our clients is being detained in Pyongyang are true”.

North Korea announced Friday that it arrested OH native Otto Warmbier for committing an unspecified “hostile act” while visiting the country.

Fowle, of Miamisburg, said in 2014 he had left a Bible in a North Korean nightclub in hopes it would reach underground Christians.

North Korea’s main ally, China, has repeatedly pushed for the talks’ resumption, but Park said the North’s fourth nuclear test on Jan 6 underlined Pyongyang’s rejection of denuclearisation as a bargaining chip.