Otto Warmbier dies days after returning from North Korea

Published June 19, 2017 8:50pm ET



Otto Warmbier, the University of Virginia student detained by North Korea for more than a year, died Monday, his family said in a statement.

“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,” his family’s statement read. “But we choose to focus on the time we were given to be with this remarkable person.”

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