N. Korea denies torturing US student Warmbier: KCNA

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(FILES) This file picture taken and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on March 16, 2016 shows the trial of arrested US student Otto Frederick Warmbier (L) at the Supreme Court in Pyongyang. North Korea on June 23, 2017 denied it had tortured or mistreated Otto Warmbier, the US student who died after being released in a coma from the North. / AFP PHOTO / KCNA / KCNA / - South Korea OUT / REPUBLIC OF KOREA OUT ---EDITORS NOTE--- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS THIS PICTURE WAS MADE AVAILABLE BY A THIRD PARTY. AFP CAN NOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, LOCATION, DATE AND CONTENT OF THIS IMAGE. THIS PHOTO IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY AFP. /
This file picture taken and released from North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on March 16, 2016 shows the trial of arrested United States student Otto Frederick Warmbier (L) at the Supreme Court in Pyongyang.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — North Korea on Friday denied it had tortured or mistreated Otto Warmbier, the US student who died after being released in a coma from the North.

“Our relevant agencies treat all criminals… thoroughly in accordance with domestic laws and international standards,” a spokesperson of the National Reconciliation Council was quoted as saying by Pyongyang’s KCNA news agency.

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