ABC News Online: US judge orders North Korea to pay $500 million over Otto Warmbier's death
A federal judge has ordered rogue nation North Korea to pay more than $US500 million ($700 million) in a wrongful death suit filed by the parents of American college student Otto Warmbier.
Mr Warmbier, 22, died in June 2017 shortly after he was returned to the US in a coma and showing apparent signs of torture while in custody.
He had visited North Korea with a tour group when he was arrested and sentenced to 15 years of hard labour in March 2016 on suspicion of stealing a propaganda poster.
In Washington on Monday (local time), US District Judge Beryl Howell ruled that North Korea should pay damages to Mr Warmbier's parents, Fred and Cindy.
The judgment is largely a symbolic victory for now, since there is no mechanism to force North Korea to pay.
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Update #1: U.S. court orders North Korea to pay $501 million in U.S. student's death -- Reuters
Update #2: US court orders North Korea to pay $500 million for Otto Warmbier's death -- DW
WNU Editor: It is going to be a problem to collect.
2 comments:
Judge delusional. Must be a leftist judge trying to manipulate the peace process. Of course the NORKS should in some form or shape pay, but it'll likely be symbolic and years from now. They will not pay money and certainly not 500mil. Last time I checked they couldn't even afford a good hotel in Singapore
I figured the amount should be 12 million. 3 million for wages lost and add 3X for pain and suffering or as a penalty.
But they wouldn't pay that either.
We should just take hostages.
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