Jun 21 WATCH LIVE: Tillerson and Mattis to hold joint news conference after talks with China By Associated Press The US and China began high-level security talks Wednesday focused largely on North Korea, amid outrage in Washington over the death of an American college student after his imprisonment in the North. Continue reading
Jun 21 Otto Warmbier’s death looms over U.S.-China talks on North Korea By Matthew Pennington, Associated Press Otto Warmbier's death after returning from North Korean imprisonment is stoking outrage in Washington and threatening to overshadow high-level U.S.-Chinese talks Wednesday. Continue reading
Jun 20 Watch 8:24 Will Otto Warmbier’s death affect U.S. strategy on North Korea? By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jun 20 Trump: China’s pressure on North Korea hasn’t worked By Associated Press His tweet comes a day after learning that Otto Warmbier, an American student who was returned from North Korea to the U.S. in a coma last week, had died. Continue reading
Jun 20 How powerful is North Korea’s military? By Eleanor Albert, Council on Foreign Relations North Korea has embarked on an accelerated buildup of weapons of mass destruction and modernization of its already large conventional force. Read more in this Council on Foreign Relations explainer. Continue reading
Jun 19 Watch 6:53 News Wrap: Student jailed by North Korea dies after returning to U.S. By PBS News Hour In the our news wrap Monday, Otto Warmbier, an American college student who was imprisoned by North Korea for over a year, has died days after being returned to the U.S. in a coma. Also, the Supreme Court will hear… Continue watching
Jun 19 Trump offers condolences to family whose son died after North Korean detainment By Joshua Barajas President Donald Trump offered his condolences to the family of Otto Warmbier, the American college student who died after being imprisoned in North Korea for the past 17 months. Continue reading
Jun 15 WATCH: Parents of U.S. student freed from North Korea speak out By Dake Kang, Associated Press WYOMING, Ohio — An American college student who was imprisoned in North Korea and returned to his home state of Ohio in a coma suffered a "severe neurological injury," a hospital spokeswoman said Thursday. Continue reading
Jun 13 Watch 4:10 U.S. college student freed from North Korea after falling into extended coma By PBS News Hour Otto Warmbier, a 22-year-old American college student, has been medically evacuated under desperate circumstances after being detained in North Korea. North Korean authorities arrested Otto, who is now comatose, almost 18 months ago during a trip to the reclusive nation… Continue watching
Jun 13 North Korea frees American student By Matthew Pennington, Matthew Lee, Associated Press The administration credited the release of Otto Warmbier to its diplomatic intervention. Continue reading