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N. Korea sentences American student to 15 years' hard labor

File photo taken in February 2016 shows University of Virginia student Otto Warmbier speaking at a press conference in Pyongyang. North Korea's top court on March 16 sentenced Warmbier, who has been detained since early January for committing what Pyongyang calls an anti-state hostile act, to hard labor for 15 years amid rising tensions over North Korea's nuclear and missile development programs. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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N. Korea sentences American student to 15 years' hard labor

U.S. university student Otto Warmbier is taken to North Korea's top court in Pyongyang on March 16, 2016. The court sentenced Warmbier, who has been detained since early January for committing what Pyongyang calls an anti-state hostile act, to hard labor for 15 years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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N. Korea sentences American student to 15 years' hard labor

U.S. university student Otto Warmbier is taken out of North Korea's top court in Pyongyang on March 16, 2016, after being sentenced to 15 years of hard labor. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Detained U.S. student apologizes at press conference

Otto Frederick Warmbier, University of Virginia student, attends a press conference in Pyongyang on Feb. 29, 2016. Warmbier, who had been detained in January for allegedly committing an anti-state "hostile act," apologized at the event. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Detained U.S. student apologizes at press conference

Otto Frederick Warmbier, a University of Virginia student, bows his head in apology during a press conference in Pyongyang on Feb. 29, 2016. Warmbier was detained in January for allegedly committing an anti-state "hostile act." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Detained U.S. student apologizes at press conference

Otto Frederick Warmbier, University of Virginia student, attends a press conference in Pyongyang on Feb. 29, 2016. Warmbier, who had been detained in January for allegedly committing an anti-state "hostile act," apologized at the event. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Detained U.S. student apologizes at press conference

Otto Frederick Warmbier, University of Virginia student, attends a press conference in Pyongyang on Feb. 29, 2016. Warmbier, who had been detained in January for allegedly committing an anti-state "hostile act," apologized at the event. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fred Warmbier

Fred Warmbier (far L), father of U.S. student Otto Warmbier who died after being detained in North Korea, and Takuya Yokota (far R), brother of Megumi Yokota who was abducted by North Korea in 1977, chat at U.N. headquarters in New York on May 3, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Warmbier just tip of iceberg of N. Korea abuses: Kirby

Michael Kirby (L), former chairman of the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on North Korea, poses with Japanese Consul General Keizo Takewaka in Sydney on June 28, 2017, at a celebration for his conferment of the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star, which he received from the Japanese government in April. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Symposium on abduction issue

Fred Warmbier, the father of Otto Warmbier, a University of Virginia student who died in 2017 while in a coma following more than a year in detention in North Korea, speaks during a symposium on North Korea's abduction of Japanese and other nationals at U.N. headquarters in New York on May 10, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Relatives of Japanese abducted by N. Korea

Takuya Yokota (C, R) and Koichiro Iizuka (C, L) attend an event in Washington on May 3, 2019, representing the families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea decades ago. Pictured on the right is Cindy Warmbier, mother of American student Otto Warmbier who died in 2017 following more than a year in detention in North Korea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fred Warmbier

Fred Warmbier, father of the deceased U.S. student Otto Warmbier, speaks at a symposium on the issue of North Korea's abductions of foreigners on at U.N. headquarters in New York on May 3, 2018. Otto died after being released from detention in North Korea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Father of Otto Warmbier to attend Olympic opening ceremony

Undated combined file photo shows Otto Warmbier (L), who was detained by North Korea for 17 months and died in June 2017 after returning to the United States, and his father Fred Warmbier. Fred will attend the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Olympics as a guest of Vice President Mike Pence, The Washington Post reported on Feb. 4, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.S. student dies after being released by N. Korea

American university student Otto Warmbier, shown in this photo taken in February 2016 during a press conference in Pyongyang, died at a hospital in his home state of Ohio on June 19, 2017, about a week after being released by North Korea in a coma. Warmbier had been imprisoned more than 17 months for stealing a political slogan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Father of student freed by N. Korea meets with press

Fred Warmbier, father of an American university student who was released in a coma after being detained in North Korea for 17 months, attends a press conference in Wyoming, Ohio, on June 15, 2017. His son Otto has a severe brain injury, doctors said. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Father of student freed by N. Korea meets with press

Fred Warmbier, father of an American university student who was released in a coma after being detained in North Korea for 17 months, attends a press conference in Wyoming, Ohio, on June 15, 2017. His son Otto has a severe brain injury, doctors said. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo