In North Korea, Confronting Them on the Death of Otto Warmbier
In an interview with Nicholas Kristof, a senior North Korean official suggests the United States government let American student Otto Warmbier die to stir up anti-Communist sentiment.
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Our reporters travelled to North Korea and got to talk to a senior North Korean official. We questioned him on the death of Otto Warmbier and President Trump's and his government's response.
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Our interview in North Korea on the Death of Otto Warmbier
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I think he's lying but he saved his family from being executed.
Rajshekhar: Good point. I've wondered about that a few times myself. Politicians and military officials lie and often HAVE to just to protect military and national security secrets. But the brutal, communist and socialist regimes cover up such horrendous CRIMES, I wonder how their consciences handle it. Maybe they're so morally, ethically and otherwise mentally beaten down that, like robots, they just numbly cite the "party line" lies to cover up atrocities without giving it any ethical consideration whatsoever.
Sandi216 Just like America. It’s a perfect example of a regime. Just a well hidden more refined one.
Exactly this fool is lying. They killed Otto they knew he'd come back spilling what happened
Refusing to take the responsibility. The fact still remains, he was in a coma state when he was in NK.
True
Interviewing North Korea is like trying to talk to a brick wall
Clay omg lmao so true
Lol
very good. but brick not hit back!
😂😂💀
Exactly! But, Otto was somebody who was soughting out boundaries! But, that should never be the reason to torture somebody! Never!
Translation: I’m saying everything I can to save my life and the life of my family for the next 8 generations... next question.
EXACTLY MAN!! People bashing this man and don’t even know it’s for him and his family’s own sake. I hate ignorant people
FACTS
@@siderofficial the people bashing him are not ignorant he is still doing a wrong
@@siderofficial you dont know that. i think this man believes everything he says, but that doesnt make him a bad guy, because there are no bad guys, only enemies
@@25fpslagger81 we don’t know his intention
of course he's not going to admit Otto was tortured, if he does they will murder him and his family. This was pointless.
I completely agree. The other diplomats that have defected have described how they knew they were lying but they had to for extremely valid reasons. Once they make it out they're such amazing people who aren't at fault for this situation. ❤️
Absolutely Right.
Yeah, I would not be willing to even ask him difficult questions as not to put him in trouble.
He was actually framed. His friends mentioned he was out having drinks with them (his friends) during new years eve & returned to the hotel @3am. The footage of a person stealing the poster was captured @1am. So obviously it wasn't Otto (source: 60 minutes)
Actually they will torture them until they die so yea
Otto died days after being returned to America because the North Koreans knew he was about to die and didn't want it to happen when he was on their soil. Make no mistake, North Korea killed him.
Charles Teague he died because his parents pulled his feeding tube. Otto had a failed suicide attempt that ledt him brain dead. This man spoke truth.
james fischer, in a country where the people are starving, they thoughtfully provide enough sleeping pills to prisoners so that they can get a good night's sleep. Or commit suicide. Whichever they prefer. Ya right.
@@charwest9449 Hanging is also a possibility. He would have healed with no evidence by the time he returned if he didn't signigicantly damage his larynx. Not that I don't suspect foul play on North Korea's part. But a suicide attempt that left him braindead isn't out of the question. There could be multiple self inflicted reasons his brain was starved of oxygen leading to braindeath.
@@Mia-ln1zs He would have been carefully watched day and night. He was obviously a special prisoner, and they had BIG plans for him. His show trial alone with all the media is proof of that. His dramatic obviously coached "confession". There would have been NO chance to try suicide. Plus, you could see he was being drugged as they led him away. I really don't think suicide was what caused his brain to be starved of oxygen. It's just an obvious excuse to absolve North Korea of responsibility for this heinous attempt to let loose their hate for America. The key for me is the 20 day lapse between when they detained Otto at the airport by telling his tour and everyone it was because "he was feeling ill" and the time 20 days later that they suddenly came up with "oh and he tried to steal a poster". I think they used that 20 days to interrogate him enough to learn enough about his life to concoct that "crime" get him to act it out so they could tape it, and only THEN announce to the world that they had detained him for "committing a crime". Otherwise why not just say, We detained him because he tried to steal a poster, from the beginning. Why the 20 day lapse?
@@charwest9449 Yea his imprisonment was totally unjustified. I was just saying suicide can't be completely ruled out.
"We did everything to recover Otto back to health" .. Why was he in that condition in the first place?
No one knows and I find it strange that his family refused an autopsy.
@@globalwarming5050 Your blaming it on a sleeping pill and Alcohol? Really? Where in the world are.yiu getting that information. Please provide your source. Yes, the prisoner that they torture and hardly feed they're giving sleeping pill and Alcohol too. Sure. By your statement I'm also detecting a bit or racism. Just had to bring in race didn't you friend? 'White"/' Americans aren't the only people that dictatorship has taken and tortured before.
Guard probably cracked him over the head with a rifle too many times
They tortured him and it's not rocket science
Craven Morehead ignorance is bliss
"Its very hot here. You lay down, you get bed sores". Im sorry what? Didn't realize NK was the mojave desert
right? what does that have to do with a 22 year old healthy man dying under their watch... clearly tortured to the state of comatosis and returned before he actually died on their soil.
I love u for that comment
I live in Rio (which I'm just going to assume is hotter than NK) and never heard of that happening. Bed sores can happen if you are immobile in bed for a really long time, like a coma or something, but that's why you move and massage the person....
North Korea has a continental climate, which means their summer is very hot, does not have to be Mojave Desert. And the winter is very cold. Summer in korea is also very humid. That does not mean i agree with that speech i just wanted to mention this.
@@noahdyedotcom US doctors said "no trace of torture". So he hasn't been tortured. He just committed a sucid after to have been sentenced, but not died, just felt down in a coma. Many people commit a suicid after being sentenced. That's it. He swallowed himself a pill. And have a look to the photo, when he came back to the USA : he wasn't even in a stretcher. So the guy is in a coma and they took him like that, without a stretcher, to get him to the hospital ? Doesn't make sense. DPRK released many other detained without any problem. Warmbier was just a financial sucker student who didn't care about the rules. Like every financial student, they just think they are the masters of the world, and rules don't apply to them. By sentencing him, we probably avoided a new Goldman Sachs killer.
I'm honestly speechless. I can't believe that countries like North Korea with such a horrible dictatorship still exist. I'm so grateful that I live in Europe, I don't have to be afraid of my life. Sometimes people forget how good they have it.
“I’m speechless..”. Then writes a whole comment. Millennials… they’re something else huh? 😂
Just wait until the muslims take over completely..
@@fellowdanbarber3323 Its called a figure of speech, like when you say you're dying of laughter it doesnt actually mean youre dying. Oh you old people and youe superiority complex
@@fellowdanbarber3323 people who are over 30 would do the exact same thing with the same choice of words
There is actually a war in Europe right now..
"Why was he in a coma for a year even though he came to your country as a healthy adult male?" "BUT TRUMP IS A JERK!" avoiding the question much?
He took a page right out of Trump's book.
Samuel Johnston no he answered the question. Western sources found no evidence of torture and he passed away 6 days after he arrived stateside, where Trump could've easily paid for the most expensive doctors in the world .
They don't know. It was likely he got hold of some tablets and OD'd to escape an unexpected 15 hard labor. . Normally they release US prisoners after a few years and treat them quite well. He didnt die.... When he returned the parents agreed to an OD of anaesthesia by army doctors..... .....he was in a horrid state..... That is why the parents did not agree to an autopsy.
Useless to "interview" a North Korean. All you'll get is the official line he's been told to say.
@@RoyalKnightVIII Trump either didn't know before he died or Trump is a selfish jerk.
Here is an important message " Do not ever visit North Korea".
Yah exactly, they use the tourism money for making weapons
Actually, the message is “don’t commit crimes in other countries”
@@veroniquebellamy4741 plenty of friends have visited north korea and nothing happened. They actually enjoyed it. So i agree with you
@@angelb9672 Nothing happened because Your Friends didn't mention name of Kim Jong Un 😁😁😁
@@angelb9672 WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? THEY ENJOYED WHAT? THAT THEY DIDN"T HAPPEN TO BE FALSELY ACCUSED OF ANYTHING?
In case you're wondering: the Warmbier family sued the DPRK in a US court, and the court ordered the DPRK to pay damages. Obviously they refused, so in 2019 a DPRK cargo ship was seized by the US government that was found to violate coal sanctions and ordered it sold and the money paid as compensation.
can you share a link pls?
US doing the theft as always.
What was the spy doing in DPRK?
Wow...
@@s.v.discussion8665 wow😮 just wow!
The journalist interviewing him is one of the best I’ve seen at his craft. Sticks to his guns and addresses the facts as he knows them
LOL he failed. The North Korean re-directed the interview within seconds.
BRAVE REPORTER. I WOULD BE TERRIFIED TO GO THERE.
glacier8 I applaud him for keeping his cool. I would not be able to contain my wrath if four eyes there were to say such lies to me like that..
brave reporter? ghahahahahahahhahaah....
Uros Kostic stfu
Yeah but he's protected If something would happen to them going there doing their job... They do not want a war with the US, it would end good for them
Johan Fredman if they were in war with the US the US and it’s many allies would crush them.
So if i go to North Korea and hold that Korean guy underwater for 4 minutes and he drowns, can I say that it wasn't me who drowned him beacuse he was under the water where there is plenty of oxygen molecules?
Yes
If you did it, it’s murder. If they do it, it’s not murder. North Korean / Chinese government logic 🤦♂️
*North Korean: It’s not H2, but H2O... GET IT RIGHT!”*
@@mrrickstur As a Chinese i approve your statement, communist countries are actually very racist
I admire this man for being confrontational about Otto and the situation that takes balls to do what he did going there
No it doesn't. He's fully protected by his country.
@@Blue0000FF he would’ve been imprisoned if he didn’t answer the way he did
"How did he die?" "Oh, nice weather we're having eh?"
Who's the victim Otto or a poster? A poster has no life it can't see or speak Otto came back dead. This story is so disturbing. I can't sleep he dis not deserve death for a poster.
I have found it to be really disturbing, too. It seems like people can't even fathom it so they don't acknowledge what a big deal it is. I am so disturbed about it that I'm even replying to strangers comments about it seeking empathy.
Oh well. He shouldn’t have been in North Korea acting like a thug. US law is not North Korean law.
@@bootneyleefarnsworth1788 It's still of question whether he did it though?
Rest in peace poster some year - some year :(
Explain that to north korea
Wait, how did North Korea have access to twitter? haha
khoa T the government officials have it, I guess
Only the government officials have it
Imagine for a sec, being a government official in North Korea. Your life would be totally different from anyone else
SMTR how fun having actual access to stuff like twitter youtube and even wikipedia
@@Aziial But I wonder how they are still loyal to their government even knowing all, read articles about their evil leader and a lot of human rights violation they have its all in the internet anyway, if they know twitter then they probably see a lot of documentaries about it.
Can't blame this either. He's not just going to reveal the truth and end up hurting himself and his family. He's doing what's in the best of interest for his loved ones. You want to confront someone, go confront Kim, the source of all evils.
Can we just appreciate that this journalist is in north Korea roasting a DPRK politician. Like dam
I mean they do need some sort of heat but yeah the way he talks I wouldn't even say to anyone even if I'm angry...
Imagine if the American had spoken of Kim Jong Un the way the DPRK official spoke of Trump.
Imagine an american speaks of Kim in front of that North Koreans
oops somethings bad would happen
all you need to remember is that NK is like a big gulag and you should never travel there.
*Exactly; they treat Jong-Un like a god despite coming from a family lineage that literally threw lavish parties in Pyongyang while millions of North Koreans starved to death in the streets during a famine. They treat him as if he doesn’t run an army that shamelessly executes, threatens, tortures, and lies to their own people. They’re all scared for their lives there.*
North Korea is like a box of nukes. You'll never know what you're gonna get
Why did this conversation have to turn to trump? Most of Otto warmbiers story happened under obama
Trump is also responsible for all the Wholly Mammoths dying and all the settlers in Roanoke disappearing. Yes Donald Trump is the cause of all this.
Bad Cattitude because the sky is blue. Accept in North Korea soon it will be a different color
haftrox1 exactly
Bad Cattitude lies m8, mainstream media is a lie
Say it with me folks. Louis Griffin: " Nine..........Eleven". Lol
North korean system is like that one kid who tries to act smart but literally everyone sees through his bs
Arborly Bubble nope they know they speak bs and everyone else knows they speak bs
wrong. Us foreigners know it's BS. but they don't care about that. Their society is completely brainwashed, because that's the only thing they hear
Except for its citizens.
Worse than dead. They returned him suffering great damage from torture. What they did to that boy is unforgivable.
Not even great damage, they practically killed him, but somehow managed to keep him alive long enough to not let him die on their soil.
Shouldn’t have gone to North Korea in the first place.
Huh... I'm south korean and it's interesting how his accent isn't as heavy as I expected ... and he knows what twitter is lol
What are you thinking? I'm curious on your thoughts?
사실 평양 말씨는 서울 말씨랑 크게 다르지 않음... 매체에서 나오는 북한 말투는 좀 더 이질감이 느껴지게 하기 위해서 오버하는 면이 있죠
@Obungo bin Hitler Stalin North Koreans tend to have heavier accents than the southerners
I'm a white American. If I'm speaking to two Koreans I can tell who is from Seoul and who is from Busan.
@Obungo bin Hitler Stalin 70 years of separation changes the vernacular and time has stood still in NK. Many South Koreans do not recognize some of NKs dialect.
Just an FYI to everyone here, US citizens with US passports are actually banned from travelling to north korea now. You need special validation to go there, and thats very hard to get.
Good
U should ban ur self's from the middle East too.. 😁
Thank god
ermmm, its a good thing right HAHH
Sphiwo Rantabe I don’t wanna go to that shithole region anyways
I really can't believe all of this was just swept under the rug, and literally right when Otto passed. No body was talking about it.
No one talked but they have their thoughts on it even the North Koreans
My Opinion is a young Life shouldnt have ended like that or children who es as civilist in a war field or we dying in viruses Cancer etc
Every Country was his Tragic history and Wars wars Not only destroy the living Planet ans human lives they make the ground unlivable radioaktive they still dug Bombe out everythere even in North Korea From past wars
this man is saying that they tried to save him, and said that we’re supposed to be the most medically advanced and couldn’t save him either, but the fact that he was in such a state that no one, not even our best doctors, could save him, just shows how badly he was treated. No one should have had to save him because he shouldn’t have been in that state in the first place. I’m not a trump supporter, but he’s calling trump crazy for accusing that they tortured him, but what else could have happened to him? It’s not like he had to be carried out with an oxygen mask because of jet lag. Plus, he’s saying that trump is a pathetic man with a big man, when he represents Kim Jong Un, the irony. He can’t even answer the questions.
You must be very intelligent, the North Korean man is obviously trying to not get killed by the government
There seemed to be lack of oxygen. Either due to Otto's attempt to hang himself or due to drug administering. A N.K defector spy gives the 2nd occasion 70-80% chances. This rogue state has developed high tech biological potential .
He knows if he told the truth, he'd end up like Kim Jong Un's uncle 😭😭💀💀
This guy was ordered not to speak of the truth obviously
A trip by college students to a place like North Korea is an accident waiting to happen! I would like to know whose bright idea it was in the first place! A heartbreaking tragedy... RIP Otto 💞
Yes moot a good idea. The travel company (run by Americans should have also been held responsible) it was advertised as a 5 night binge drinking party! Definitely not a good idea to get drunk in Korea of all places!!
Otto was going to study abroad in Hong Kong. Since he would be spending time in the area, he decided to check our NK, through a travel group called 'Young Pioneers' - the group included young people from Europe, Canada, maybe Austrailia. I think he was the only American.
It's always fun watching these things wondering if the man truly believes the sentences he's stringing together or if he's just saying what has to be said to keep his family looked after and not killed. I imagine people in positions of power there are hanging onto those privileges fiercely.
I'm sure he does not have a choice and is not because of privilege. he'd be killed for saying that it was North Korea's fault
Yeah I’m sure he doesn’t want to end up like Otto sadly. He knows what up. It’s so sad how they much live in fear there
This dang g00k knows dang well he's lying
@@Jasminegonzalez0624 You underestimate how brainwashed people who grow up in isolated dictatorships can be. The dictator is sometimes very popular and well liked by many. It's probably hard for some of them to even imagine what freedom is like, this is just their reality.
dont be mad at the representative hes making sure his entire family doesnt get publicly executed or tortured
He probably was anyway.
I don't believe this North Korean man for one second
JacobMartinek101 nothing but lies lies lies
September Fumich I agree
힌지 힌지 Keep abiding by your god Kim, you mental rat.
Pastor Hass I'd prefer the Canadian media, because they don't make up how 'glorious' they are like the DPRK
Angel is NK troll
"He's just a pathetic man with a big mouth". Fine diplomacy
To be fair, this was not a diplomatic mission, this was an interview.
I know he's just doing his job but this breaks my heart
My thoughts and prayers are still with the Warmbier family and Otto. I'm so sorry for your loss..it's an international tragedy.
cia spook he was.
Amen!!! in Jesus mighty name 🙏🙏🙏 father give the justice and solace in the land of the living
Our doctors and nurses tried every form of torture we had he just didint die.
Well, I mean, what did you expect? You didn't expect him to say "Yes, we tortured Otto and caused him brain damage. It's our fault", did you? It was a waste of time interview right from the beginning.
Our doctors and nurses made immeasurable efforts to save him. Translation: he went to gulag
Poor guy having to come up with good enough defenses or him and his whole family are doomed.
It’s almost like watching a 400 pound guy calling a 200 pound guy fat and lazy.
Trump is around 300 tho.........
"You have a huge head" said the sparrow to the owl.
What's done is done. Otto had precisely NO business going to N.KOREA, much less China. When are American parents going to wake up to the dangers of world travel? Some of these countries that parents are sending their kids to is NOT like going to KiddieLand. God bless Otto's family and friends. R.I.P. OTTO W.
I'd heard he didn't steal a poster, and I've heard they found the poster in his luggage. Hard to know whether he committed the crime. Back then, you ran the risk of being detained and used as leverage against the US. I'm glad they've since restricted travel to the DPRK. I have a feeling that when it opens up again, things will be much different. Like with Russia and China, we at least need to get to a point where the citizens aren't caught in the middle of the tensions. I'd love to visit the N Korean people some day, when the risk is completely absent.
Younger people than this man are shot to death in their school in America. Why do parents let their kids go to school in America?
Stay away. Plain simple. Or have the pain for the rest of ur life. End of story
Turn on english subtitles while the north korean is speaking. The auto generated subtitles are priceless
mans name dropped ronda rousey 😭
They made sure he wouldn’t be able to share his experience once he returned home.
I love how he blamed america for otto dying 6 days after he got back like they did absolutely nothing wrong and he magically was unable to walk or do anything anymore. That's like saying someone got terminal cancer from being forced to mine uranium with a month to live and then they give the person back to their home country, and blame that country for not saving him.
Sad part is he had to say that too or he and his family would end up the same way
Why am I actually kinda mad he’s talking down on trump
He definitely told the truth about trump, however it had nothing to do with the situation at hand.
Very Opinionated no, he really didn’t
You can blame N Korea for a lot, but not that.
I mean Trump is a pathetic man with a big mouth but two wrongs dont make a right
He’s talking down on trump and you felt bad. So what do you think about, what Trump thinks of American's president *versus* Kim Jung Un....
Thats impressive spin for putting someone in a vegetative state and twisting their teeth around
“All the money for nursing” 30 seconds in and its just a massive lie
im a muslim and my pray to atto allah will take hes revenge in the day of judgement
Inshallah
If I understand you correctly you're being kind about the death of Otto and as an American I just wanted to say thank you ❤️
i think everyone can agree that Otto Warmbier was indeed tortured to the limit and then sent back to the USA knowing that he was going to die.
He didn't even steal the poster, he just held it for one second
he brought that poster to airport.
I read an article that Otto's roommate said he bought a souvenir poster from a gift shop.
His answers are like me writing an examination that I haven't prepared and writing the same answer over and over again irrespective of question asked
His answers were very well prepared. If he only strayed away from what he was scripted to say he wouldve been murdered, very likely with his entire family.
Why didnt they ask how he got the brain damage ?
Whole interview?!
LMAO that's like asking liberals to tell the truth WARNING: don't hold your breath
When I heard he got 15year Jail and hard labour, I already know his chance of coming back alive is slim
Key Question: Is their absolute agreement/proof Otto went to the 5th floor and/or took that poster? His roommate (UK) on the trip said he did not believe it, and the video footage was unclear. Is there consensus on this? I have always been curious about this as I followed this tragic case. I must say, regardless is he did it or not, he did not deserve to die.
Yes, there’s video as well as his confession.
@@californiaslastgasp6847his travel buddy said that they went outside and had returned 3am that morning.. that CCTV video was taken on 1:45 or something like that.. and his confession looks straight up fake.
@@rejim.philip9431 I watched recently the documentary where she said that it couldn't be Otto since they were not back in the hotel at that time. Maybe it's just me but it seemed that she wasn't very sure by saying it. Just her words and body language were not too convincing. I mean, if you make a statement like this and you're 100% confident about what you're saying, it would've looked and sounded a bit differently, in my opinion. Of course, everything is possible and in case Otto didn't touch this poster at all, it makes the situation even worse even if it's already the worst it can be.
@@silencestation557 Otto said something like, "North Korea has treated me very well" during his confession. That sounds completely scripted. Likely they tortured him and made him read some confession. I don't buy for a minute that his confession was authentic. Maybe the friend didn't know for sure, but I doubt the North Koreans did either. It was straight up Kangaroo court that he was convicted on.
he died six days after he came back because yall tortured him LMAO "it's a mystery" lmao
There wasn't found torture signs. You are such ignorant, you even didn't watch your news. Let's say you tortured, you came, as walking and died in 6 days how it's possible?
@@youknowmyfirstlastname3206 I feel sorry for you let me guess you live in North Korea?😂
I'm so glad I was born south of the DMZ. Thank God!
It's like paradise vs prison, lucky you
It’s sad what the north civilians have to live and put up with food shortages and no freedom horrendous place 👍🇬🇧
Thank god, I'm an alien.
I wish you all would go up there and free your brothers and sisters from bondage
@@royfairchild6895easier said that done
I feel like that last line was secretly about his leader as well.
Reporter didn't challenge him enough what a woos
And the reporter end up just like Otto? What would that have accomplished? Everyone knows that Trump is right, that they tortured the boy until his body could take no more.
The United States might be the most advanced in medicine but for goodness sakes we're not miracle workers!!! this guy Otto was totally beyond bringing back!
The hot weather gives you bedsore for being in bed for some times? As a Medical doctor are you kidding me?i live in a tropical country this is false
lol
Wow. This interview says it all really.
Love how he doesn't answer any of the questions and just says the Americans are at fault for letting him die after he was released from their imprisonement
Interviewer : A young American tourist died in your country after being arrested and tortured how can you explain this ? North Korea : Yes .
I loved the politics aside part 😂😂😂😂
Otto died so soon after he returned to the US because his parents opted to remove the feeding tube. He was braindead, and "alive" in the loosest sense of the term
Gee thanks nyt great report
Send them a bill for funeral expenses!
Otto was already in a coma for what is predicted a year before he was released back to America. His parents saw his condition and the decided it’s best to take him of life support. So many theory’s of what happened but in my opinion is Otto would’ve been alive right now had he not gone to North Korea.
Other people on the same tour have said they didn’t get back to hotel till after 3am.
This is so frustrating!
This man just called our president a thug
That is the truth...
@@veritas4517 yeah leaders of china and north korea are angels
He was right about that. Glad Trump is gone. At least we can vote out our despots.
if you had taken two completely different interviews and mashed them together, it would make as much sense as this utter madness
thats standard 60 minutes australia procedure
Where’s the full interview?
What else do you expect the guy to say when he prbly doesn't want to be publicly executed
Out of all the countries he had to go North Korea
And he loves the N. Korean enough that he want a poster for survenir, LMAO, and he was like 28 yrs old. You can buy those poster everywhere, cheese.
You *_know_* that there's going to be some person who watches this video, and the only thing they take away from this is "Wow, even the North Korean guy knows how horrible Trump is." like a North Korean official in 2017 disliking Trump is some sort of revolutionary discovery.
It's even crazier to think they told that man before the interview if he said one wrong thing, he and his family would've been imprisoned
OMG!!!! I can´t believe what i just hear😭.May God have mercy on them
Not even asking hard questions. The NY Times is just as complicit.
lol It's obvious they're not even in the same room. They never show both of them together, and when they do one of them is blurred out and It's always the back of their head. Weird
you can see that he is afraid to speak out...
Scary, that’s what is coming to my mind, the only word that comes to my mind.
The real question is how this north Korean knows about twitter
Higher ups in the North Korean regime know a lot more about the outside world than what you might think. This is especially true with Kim Jong Un in office, where as Kim Jong Il had a much more elitist methodology of keeping North Korean's pure and 100% homogeneous. This can be seen now by the advent of cars, cell phones, working personal computers as well as a working intranet within North Korean homes. Well, at least in wealthier areas.
mmm with regard to Otto Warmbier, North Korea clearly wanted to cause an international accident, ask yourself if his life has such a great value as to cause a national accident.
What are they writing when the whole thing is being recorded
Omg I couldn’t imagine going there. Not a chance.
Once back in America, Otto ‘died’ when his parents requested him to be taken off life support. The actions which put him in such a vegetative state-the actions which effectively killed Otto and left a shell of a human being-were committed on North Korean soul. North Korea killed this man, no doubt. In America, he was simply allowed to pass peacefully.
Well, the Korean guy wasn't wrong about Trump
Nope. He was just exaggerating to distract the reporter from the Otto subject. He played right into the American media’s narrative
Nailed it at the end though.
Does anybody know, if the interviewer returned alive???
"based on those tweets, i think trump is a crazy man" Pick another tweet, that one is the only correct on imo
There's some specifics that don't get discussed much about Otto's condition: He wasn't "just" braindead. He was severely beaten, his arms and legs were broken, misshapen and deformed, some of his teeth had been ripped out and broken, he was intentionally blinded and made deaf - and somehow, whether by severe beating or some kind of drug - has severe brain damage. Otto was awake when he landed back in the US. Awake and screaming in agony, but he could not hear, could not see, could not speak, and his only reaction to any stimuli was agonal groaning and screaming. What happened to Otto was far worse than "only" being braindead.
Omg 😮
source ?
Yeah I call bs! These people never name their source!
Well that was depressing to read. Hope it wasn’t that bad for the poor guy jeez
You're SO full of it. A defector who had colleagues who dealt with him said he was "only" beaten up because he was too weak and pathetic (in their view) for proper torture. He did think he was drugged, though, in order to prevent him from coming and exposing the conditions he experienced in the country.
The black subtitles are amazing🤣🤣🤣
Obviously it's North Koreas fault for his health, but what on Earth was Otto Warmbier thinking?
2:07 He's not wrong there . . .
2:14 Dude might be a North Korean communist, but he said one thing right about trump tho.
When your facts align with those of a North Korean communist you should get them checked out.
You have to be a lunatic to visit North Korea, Iraq, Syria, or Iran for vacation. WTF was this kid thinking??
He dodged questions like a superhero dodges bullets