“Otto did not die in vain,” he said.
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Warmbier, a 22-year-old University of Virginia student from Cincinnati, was arrested in North Korea in January 2016 for stealing a propaganda poster. He died in June 2017, days after he returned to the U.S. with severe brain damage.
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Warmbier’s parents filed a wrongful death lawsuit against North Korea in April.
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