Otto Warmbier's parents recall how he was ‘howling,’ ‘jerking violently’ when they reunited after North Korea prison release

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BY
Jessica Schladebeck
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Tuesday, September 26, 2017, 9:03 AM

The parents of Otto Warmbier recalled the optimism they felt when they learned their son was being released from a prison in North Korea during their first interview, three months after their son’s death.

Fred and Cindy Warmbier told Fox and Friends they knew their son was in a coma, but hoped medical care in the United States would be enough to save Otto. As soon as they boarded the plane that carried him back to the United States, however, they were met with “howling, this involuntary, inhuman sound.”

At that point, both Otto’s mother and younger sister ran from the plane.

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[driftdiver]

So sad

[anubias]

It is.  An unimaginable nightmare for a parent.

[mountaineer]

Too many Americans are ignorant of just what a horrible place North Korea is.

[Sanguine]

“Otto had a shaved head, he had a feeding tube coming out of his nose, he was staring blankly into space, jerking violently,” Fred told the news station. “He was blind. He was deaf. As we looked at him and tried to comfort him, it looked like someone had taken a pair of pliers and rearranged his bottom teeth.”

Good grief. 

[Silver Pines]

I don't see how we can let North Korea get away with this.

[Applewood]

I don't see how we can let North Korea get away with this.

Well, we are. 

[skeeter]

Too many Americans are ignorant of just what a horrible place North Korea is.

And has been for decades. I remember years ago the Norks killing two American servicemen with hatchets because they tried to prune a tree in the DMZ.

I won't be sorry to see that place burn.

[Silver Pines]

Well, we are.

 

[Silver Pines]

And has been for decades. I remember years ago the Norks killing two American servicemen with hatchets because they tried to prune a tree in the DMZ.

I won't be sorry to see that place burn.

@skeeter

My God.

[Applewood]

All I've heard for years is North Korea is bad, North Korea is dangerous, we are going to do this or that to NK, blah, blah, blah.  We knew long before Trump came along that NK was developing a nuclear arsenal and acquiring weapons of mass destruction.  Our leaders have whined, complained and threatened.  They made half-hearted attempts at diplomacy.  There have been sanctions and now even more sanctions.  Sanctions don't work.  Diplomacy doesn't work.  Rhetoric doesn't work.  What is needed and has been needed for years is decisive military action.  But it won't happen.  Our military was weakened by 8 years of Obama, neglect, underfunding and political correctness.  We could have slapped NK down years ago before that country built up its arsenal.  We didn't.  And right now, we can't. 

[thackney]

I don't see how we can let North Korea get away with this.

While I agree NK needs to have it's abilities to threaten brought under tighter control, the over the top punishment of a very foolish child who thought the rules didn't apply to him isn't the hill to risk American lives or even spend taxpayer dollars.  Nuclear ICBMs are another story.

[edpc]

I don't see how we can let North Korea get away with this.

They've gotten away with much worse on multiple occasions.  They tried to assassinate the SK president at least 3 times, seized the USS Pueblo, sank the Cheonan, shot down a US spy plane in international waters, killed US soldiers in the DMZ with hatchets, shelled a SK island, abducted foreign citizens to teach their spies how to infiltrate their countries...etc.  Truly a place the world could do without.