North Korea Blames Obama Administration For Warmbier’s Death

A day after US student Otto Warmbier was laid to rest at a funeral service in his home town of Cincinnati on Thursday, the North Korean foreign ministry released a statement to local state-controlled television saying his death was a mystery and dismissing accusations that he had died because he was tortured and beaten during his captivity, according to Reuters.
Instead, the North’s foreign ministry blamed the Obama administration for Warmbier’s death, which never formally requested Warmbier’s release, claiming Warmbier was ‘a victim of the policy of strategic patience.’
“The fact that Warmbier died suddenly in less than a week just after his return to the U. S. in his normal state of health indicators is a mystery to us as well,” the foreign ministry was quoted by KCNA as saying.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Jun 23, 2017.