Otto Warmbier, a US college republican who went to the DPRK to prove how terrible it was, vandalized a building, got arrested and sentenced to prison, had some kind of medical incident there and went into a coma, the DPRK sent him back to the US, he dies shortly after, his parents under the guidance of their CIA handler refuse to do an autopsy to find the cause of death, the medical examiner found no signs of abuse.
It’s better for them not to have an autopsy done, because Congress has a fund for victims of the DPRK or something like that. I’m not even joking.
So they cashed in a ton of money over their son’s death on the promise that they would not look into it any more and keep claiming the DPRK abused him until he died.
Medical examiner, from what he could find, saw that Otto actually received good care because he had no bed sores, typical of coma patients.
The CIA doctors or whoever did a cursory examination of him when he was returned, also probably provided with his medical history, knew the DPRK didn’t cause this, so they advised the family not to do an autopsy because it would prove them publicly innocent.
It reminds me of how in some elections in south america, the US will instruct the opposition parties to not run candidates (ie refuse to participate), if they know the left wing party would smash them in popularity.
Ie don’t do your enemies any favors by making something public that likely helps them and hurts you.
Also what specifically did he do? Western media says he only stole a calendar from a staff only area or something, but I very much doubt that was the full story.
OOTL who is this fool
Otto Warmbier, a US college republican who went to the DPRK to prove how terrible it was, vandalized a building, got arrested and sentenced to prison, had some kind of medical incident there and went into a coma, the DPRK sent him back to the US, he dies shortly after, his parents under the guidance of their CIA handler refuse to do an autopsy to find the cause of death, the medical examiner found no signs of abuse.
You think if you suspected the DPRK of killing him, you’d fucking try to find hard evidence of it.
It’s better for them not to have an autopsy done, because Congress has a fund for victims of the DPRK or something like that. I’m not even joking.
So they cashed in a ton of money over their son’s death on the promise that they would not look into it any more and keep claiming the DPRK abused him until he died.
Medical examiner, from what he could find, saw that Otto actually received good care because he had no bed sores, typical of coma patients.
The CIA doctors or whoever did a cursory examination of him when he was returned, also probably provided with his medical history, knew the DPRK didn’t cause this, so they advised the family not to do an autopsy because it would prove them publicly innocent.
It reminds me of how in some elections in south america, the US will instruct the opposition parties to not run candidates (ie refuse to participate), if they know the left wing party would smash them in popularity.
Ie don’t do your enemies any favors by making something public that likely helps them and hurts you.
He and his parents also were/are part of one of the CIA cults.
Also what specifically did he do? Western media says he only stole a calendar from a staff only area or something, but I very much doubt that was the full story.
Russian media reported he tore down a portrait of Kim IL Sung (IIRC)
IIRC he tore down a very large anti-US propaganda banner and tried to get it out of the country.
Didn’t the media claim he was beaten up into a brain hemorrhage?