Parents of Student Who Died After North Korea Imprisonment Sue for Wrongful Death

[ABX]

....Cynthia and Fred Warmbier's wrongful death lawsuit claims that North Korea forced Otto into a false confession of his crime, "kept him as a prisoner for political purposes," and singled him out for "exceptionally harsh and brutal treatment." They say that physicians found no evidence of botulism, and that he was returned to them blind, deaf, and with his teeth misaligned like they "had been forced into abnormal positions."
In addition to their wrongful death claims, the grieving parents say that as a result of their son's "torture and death," they've suffered the loss of their son's companionship, and have experienced "mental anguish, extreme emotional distress and solatium damages."
As a sovereign nation, North Korea would normally be immune from these types of lawsuits. But according to Stewart Baker, a former assistant secretary of homeland security, the parents may be able to move forward with their lawsuit because President Trump re-designated North Korea a state sponsor of terrorism last November. This categorization could allow the country to be sued.....

https://blogs.findlaw.com/injured/2018/05/parents-of-student-who-died-after-imprisonment-in-north-korea-file-wrongful-death-lawsuit.html

[Frank Cannon]

Wow. This seems like a productive way to spend your time. Send you kid to an openly hostile anti-Western country and become outraged when your kid ends up dead at the hands of a brutal regime.

Are they going to use any money they win in the suit to have a celebratory vacation in Aleppo Syria?