North Korea denies torturing Otto Warmbier

The North Korean government has denied mistreating US student Otto Warmbier, who fell into a coma while being held in prison in the communist state. North Korean foreign ministry spokesman. Warmbier was detained at the Pyongyang airport in January 2016. North Korea sentenced him to 15 years of hard labor after he attempted to steal a propaganda poster. He was released this month in what North Korea described as a “humanitarian gesture.”