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Otto Warmbier's death prompts US to weigh options vs. North Korea
By Alex Diaz  Published June 20, 2017  Fox News

A growing chorus of U.S. lawmakers are declaring the death of American college student Otto Warmbier just days after he was released from a North Korean prison "murder," and all eyes are on the White House as the Trump administration weighs possible responses.

Warmbier, the University of Virginia student detained in North Korea for nearly a year and a half, died on Monday as a result of what his parents called "awful torturous mistreatment... at the hands of the North Koreans." His death came just a week afer he was flown home in a coma-like state with devere brain damage.

"There is nothing more tragic for a parent than to lose a child in the prime of life," a somber President Trump said Monday.

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