Pyongyang said that Otto Wombier received medical treatment and was treated with dignity. North Korea first responded to allegations of ill-treatment of a 22-year-old American student Otto Wombier, who was in prison for 17 months, reports The New York Times. On June 13, North Korea liberated Otto Vombier, sentenced to 15 years for trying to tear off a political poster from the wall in one of the premises of the hotel where he stopped. At the time of liberation, he was in a coma. On June 20, Otto Vombier died. Pyongyang said that Wombier received medical treatment and was treated with dignity, despite the fact that he was an "enemy of the state". "Although we had no reason to show mercy to such an enemy of the state, we provided him with medical care with all respect for humanitarian foundations before he returned to the US, given that his condition worsened," the statement said.. The DPRK authorities added that they do not understand why Wombier died so suddenly after returning home, because his health indicators were normal after liberation. "We want to explain, we are the biggest victim of this incident," said a representative of the North Korean Foreign Ministry, calling accusations of bullying groundless. At the same time, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea stated that the student was a victim of a policy of sanctions and pressure on North Korea, and the "slanderous campaign" leads to the conclusion that "humanism and good-heartedness toward the enemy is taboo and in the future we must sharpen the blade of the law". Note that the family of Otto Wormbeer refused to autopsy. According to the coroner, only an external examination of the body.

Original article: DPRK on the death of an American student: We are victims.