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| Otto Warmbier: North Korea to release imprisoned American university student | Otto Warmbier: North Korea to release imprisoned American university student |
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| US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said that North Korea has released imprisoned American university student Otto Warmbier. | |
| He said in a statement that: "At the direction of [Donald Trump], the Department of State has secured the release of Otto Warmbier from North Korea". No further details were provided. | |
| Mr Warmbier, a student at the University of Virginia, went with a tour group from Beijing to Pyongyang in January 2016 despite US State Department travel warnings. | |
| He was arrested and convicted while trying to leave the country after his group's “New Year’s Party Tour”. | |
| The charge, according to North Korean news agency, was “perpetrating a hostile act against" the Democratic People's Republic of Korea - the official name for the reclusive Communist nation. | |
| Mr Warmbier allegedly attempted to steal propaganda signs from the hotel in which he was staying, but it remains unclear whether this is true. | |
| Approximately six weeks after his arrest, the Ohio native was sentenced to 15 years hard labour. | |
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