Otto Warmbier’s Parents Demand Sale of North Korean Ship

Otto Warmbier’s Parents Demand Sale of North Korean Ship
The parents of Otto Warmbier, Fred and Cindy Warmbier, are acknowledged during the State of the Union address in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives on Jan. 30, 2018. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Matthew Vadum
Matthew Vadum
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The parents of Otto Warmbier, a U.S. college student who died after a year of apparently harsh treatment in North Korea’s brutal penal system, have asked the courts to liquidate one of the regime’s cargo ships that the United States seized in May.

Warmbier was studying at the University of Virginia and was visiting North Korea in January 2016, when authorities in the communist country accused him of stealing a propaganda poster from a hotel.