A Defensive North Korea Issues Comment on Warmbier

North Korea—which handed back Otto Warmbier in a coma after imprisoning him for 17 months—is denying that it tortured the young American. In Pyongyang's first comment since Warmbier's death on Monday, North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency said Friday that the 22-year-old was treated "strictly based on domestic law and international standards," the AP reports. 

The statement slammed South Korea for "slanderous talk about cruel treatment and torture" despite the "humanitarian" treatment Warmbier was given. Warmbier was buried Thursday after thousands of people gathered at his old high school in Wyoming, Ohio, for a funeral service, the BBC reports.

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