Condolences, accusations against North Korea, the possible consequences of: A day after the Student Otto warm beer, passed away in his native Ohio, his death is a dominant theme in the United States. With many open questions.
“The thoughts of the University community are with the family and friends of Otto and warm beer. Simply devastating news. May he now rest in peace.” Allen Groves, Dean of students writes to the University of Virginia on Twitter. At this University on the US East coast had a warm studied beer.
A few weeks ago, only to be Born graduated from the McIntire School of Commerce the statements, at this time he was even still in North Korean custody. His fellow students remembered to this day in him and distributed to the final exams at 21. May sticker with the inscription “Free Otto”. His death was a “tremendous loss” “for his fellow students, and he will always remain an “important part of the graduating class of 2017,” said the Dean of the faculty, Carl Zeithaml, to the website of the University.
Condolences from the President…
In the US, mourning over the death of 22-year-old students, the horror about what happened in North Korea with him and sympathy with his family. All of the media reported extensively about the case, and the many open questions connected with it. About the detention circumstances and the backgrounds of his death, there is no reliable information. The only thing is that he had on his return to the United States to severe brain damage, and responsive he was.
Warmbiers the brain showed extensive tissue damage, and evidence of a food poisoning by botulinium toxin-containing food, the Doctors are not found in the United States
The Student who had visited North Korea with a tour group, was sentenced in March 2016 for theft of a propaganda poster and “crimes against the state”, to 15 years in a labour camp. According to information of his parents – the serious allegations against the North Korean leadership should rise, he also about this time in a coma. Allegedly, he suffered a food poisoning and no longer had to sleep, and he woke up. In the past week, warm beer was released for “humanitarian reasons” to free, and in the United States flown.
Many politicians have already commented on the case of warm beer, Donald Trump. “Many bad things” were happening, the US President. But at least it managed to get Otto to warm the beer back to his parents. The North Korean Regime is brutal, but the United States would give the right answer: “We want to be able to handle it.” Precisely how this response could look like, Trump says.
…and claims for the consequences
The Republican Senator from Arizona and former Republican presidential candidate John McCain writes in a Statement, North Korea was a threat to its neighbors, destabilizing the entire Region and develop under high pressure, the necessary technology to hit the US mainland with nuclear weapons.
Stricter Visa regulations for travel by U.S. citizens to North Korea? For foreign Minister the two companies were not excluded
“Otto warm beer was killed by the Regime, Kim Jong Us. In his last years, he suffered from the same nightmare, in which the North Korean population is 70 years of trapped: forced labour, starvation, and systematic violence, torture, and murder.” The “murder” of American citizens and the United States should not tolerate.
The foreign Minister, Rex Tillerson expressed the family’s warm beer on the side of the State Department to extend his condolences. In the short statement: “We make North Korea, for the wrongful imprisonment Otto Warmbiers responsible and demand the release of three other Americans who are currently being illegally detained there.” Two of the men were arrested only in may 2017, both are staff of Protestant Christians from abroad-run Elite University, the PUST (Pyongyang University of Science and Technology). You have been accused of attempts to “hostile acts” and roll-over. The third prisoner is a South Korea-born businessman and Christian missionary. He was imprisoned for 2015, among other things, because of Spying and sentenced to now a ten-year prison sentence with forced labour.
Otto warm beer, and Kim Dong Chul (right) on their way into the courtroom: Kim is currently serving a ten year sentence
Travel ban for U.S. tourists?
How will the United States react to the case of warm beer? A military strike would bring to the lives of the three remaining hostages are in danger, therefore, is considered more likely that the government is tightening once the existing sanctions. In addition to that – as reported by the Washington Post – is also conceivable that the Trump Administration imposed a travel ban on tourists from the United States. Foreign Minister Tillerson have made in the last week before the house of representatives of the appropriate regulation in view, according to the paper. There are Considerations, Visa restrictions for American citizens. A final decision has not yet been made, but “we are thinking about it”.
Such a decision would, of course, also have implications for international tour operators, the tours to North Korea – to organize a very lucrative niche in the tourism industry. Otto warm beer was in December of 2015 with a us company on the road, but travelled with the “Young Pioneer Tours”.
Warm beer was brought back in coma in the United States, he was sentenced in March 2016 to 15 years in a prison camp, after he had stolen a propaganda poster from a hotel room
The Chinese supplier and shocked on the death of the student. We had hoped to conclude that a recovery and was deeply affected. “The terrible loss has led us to reconsider our policies,” reads the Facebook page of the provider. During the detention, the Young Pioneer Tours have “stretched” again and again, Otto warm beer contact, or to be able to visit without success. Now the risk of Americans had become in trips to North Korea. We have therefore decided “to organize, in future, no more trips for U.S. citizens to North Korea”.
Safe Country To Travel In North Korea?
In early 2016, shortly after the arrest of Otto Warmbiers the Deutsche Welle had reported in an article about tourism in North Korea – and in this context, with Andrea Lee, the founder of the “Uri Tours”. The company is based in New York, and Shanghai, offers for more than 15 years organized trips to North Korea. Safety and security have top priority, and never had problems, – said Lee at the time.
At the airport of Cincinnati in the U.S. state of Ohio citizens received exactly a week ago, the returning students
The Central am in constant contact with the liaison people in the country. No one should be left alone in the Hotel, all would have to always stay with their Guides. As long as the in advance of the trip, of course, the rules carefully-made tourists followed them, you would not straight in difficulties, North Korea was a safe country to Travel in.
To draw other?
The U.S. government, however, sees it differently. She warns against travel to North Korea – and not only now. Also at the time of the arrest, Otto Warmbiers a half years ago, the site of the State Department, a corresponding Text, it dates from November 2015: “Foreign visitors may be arrested in North Korea or expelled for things that would not apply in countries other than criminal actions,” it says. No American Tourist is safe in the country, as a member of an organized group tour.
His son had not been responsive, but father Fred warm beer is convinced that he has found his peace: “He felt that he was back home”
“Don’t you think that membership in a tour group or a Guide to protect you and the North Korean authorities can stop to take you prisoner. Attempts of private providers to prevent arrest or to mediate, were not successful and did not lead to a release.”
The case, Otto wine, beer has now changed, but apparently also for “Uri Tours” of something. For a conversation no one was available on DW-question referred to the organization only on its official opinion. “It is a heart-wrenching tragedy that should have been prevented,” it says. “In light of recent events Uri Tours is reassessing its Position on North Korea-travel for U.S. citizens. In connection with this topic, no Interviews will be given.”