U.S. student freed from North Korea has severe brain injury

>An American university student who was returned to the United States this week after being held in North Korea for 17 months has a severe brain injury and is in a state of "unresponsive wakefulness," doctors said on Thursday.

>Otto Warmbier, 22, who arrived in the United States on Tuesday, is stable but "shows no sign of understanding language, responding to verbal commands or awareness of his surrounding," said Dr. Daniel Kanter, medical director of the neuroscience intensive care unit at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.

>"He has not spoken," Kanter said at a news conference. "He has not engaged in any purposeful movements or behaviors." He said Warmbier was breathing on his own.

Holy fuck, what did they do to him?

Other urls found in this thread:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Warmbier#Medical_condition
twitter.com/SFWRedditVideos

They showed the true of socialism and how it will make the new world following the teachings of Chavez and Kim Jong Un

The doctors are saying they're not sure. But it's most likely he was tortured.

Good old cold war era tortures still strong it seems.

I wouldn't be surprised if he starts killing people due to brainwashing.

Some sort of severe anoxic brain injury. Could be from overdose or suffocation but who knows at this point. All indications are that he's been in this state for months. The Nork bastards didn't say anything about it until after the release was negotiated.

It would have been more honorable to kill him outright than to surreptitiously return him to his parents as a vegetable. Commies have no shame it seems.

Fuck North Korea, they scrambled his brains and act like it was just a bacterial accident. His blood is on their hands, I can't wait till they are conquered and reclaimed by South Korea.

>torturing a foreigner over stealing a painting

holy fuck and i bought into their "only hard manual labour" camps

Scumbags. Can't wait until the whole things falls apart and these pricks catch the bullets they deserve.

There's no proof it was torture yet. He could have tried to hang himself and given himself the brain injury that way. Regardless of how it happened, it happened under the watch of the Norks, and it's despicable that the full extent of his injuries were not shared openly.

Otto was an idiot. Not a big surprise.

Sure, but it's still a tragic ending for the parents. They thought they were getting their son back, but really he was a vegetable the whole time.

>anons feeling sorry for him

He knew where he went and knew the consequences. He's a dumbass for stealing in a place where you can get death sentence just by disagreeing with the govt.

I just feel sorry for the parents.

He probably tried to hang himself, otherwise we would've known by now.

Not defending the Norks, but why would an American civie go to North Korea and then try to steal from them? If you know a dude is completely psychotic and could go apeshit on you at any moment, why would you go to his house and then try to steal his shit?

That's what I think most likely happened, but there's no way to tell at this point. Also, if that were the case, why would the Norks feed us some bullshit story about botulism poisoning and sleeping pills?

Parents should've convinced him to no go there.

Sure, the kid was a moron, but I'm still entitled to disgust at the duplicity of the Norks

Tensions are just as bad with North Korea and U.S. as the Soviets and the U.S.

What do you think would've happened if a U.S. citizen tried to steal something from Moscow in 1964?

Well, yeah, he was an absolute idiot, obviously. That doesn't mean he deserved to have his brain liquidated.

I was hoping for their demise before this guy's story emerged, though.

>Holy fuck, what did they do to him?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Warmbier#Medical_condition

he tried fucking with juche

We're talking about a country that will execute people for making a phone call to China, which is their fucking neighbor.

Their insane, yeah the guy was dumb. But it's no surprise the Norks would do something absurd.

yuck! i hate vegetables

No, not a surprise. Still sad, though.

A living death isn't a fair punishment for naivety.

It was a very stupid decision, yet the punishment exposes the barbarity of the cult that runs that godforsaken country.

different situation, North Korea is meme

It is a little more one-sided in this case. North Korea knows it wouldn't survive five minutes if we went to war with those fuckers, whereas the Soviet Union could cause enough damage that we couldn't "win" any war with them. North Korea pokes the bull with its stick to anger the United States, but never goes far enough to start a hot war. I pray their generals overthrow the fat piece of shit that runs the country.

The worst part is that the Norks kept quiet about his condition for so long when in fact he had been in this state since a month after his arrest, and then they made up some bullshit story about botulism to cover up their act.

Surprising that they kept him alive for over a year after that though.

they said they gave him a '''sleeping pill''' and he went into a coma

Man that's some fucked up shit. He's literally a vegetable now.
Not quite in a coma and 'awake' but doesn't respond to his surroundings. No eye contact or whatsoever.

Only responds to pain but that's it. Practically still braindead.

Man the human body is scary

Wow they got an American to actually shut up... (harmless bants, but being Americans I feel I should explain that to you :) . FYI plz liberate my country, fuck this nanny state!)
My actual thoughts on this are that the real guy is still in Korea probably getting fisted in a public square as we speak. This imposter is a cyborg fitted with a nuke or it is him but he is the carrier of some kind of biological weapon. It has started... keep in mind not a lot is known about North Korea, they are very secretive. All this "fuck, we are really struggling to get this whole nuke thing sorted out" could be a smoke and mirrors strategy/tactic...

I wish they had just killed him desu. His state is a fate worse than death.

Hm. Yeah maybe he's a clone provided by the Chinese or something

I'm still curious about what they did to him as the doctors haven't found any evidence of physical abuse or torture.

Probably he was either suffocated or overdosed on depressants

The generals are the ones who run the country.

>Otto Warmbier
I guess those german memes were accurate.

Oh shit! I totally forgot about weighing the chinks into this...
My dad told me once "if it smells like shite, it's probably because it is shite" this right here smells like pure shite.
Unless this guy is a total light weight that got "broken". But by being American in Commie land I can't see him "breaking" after a year "don't tread on me" and all that kind of stuff. But hey who knows.

Some people sing I left my heart in San Francisco, Otto sings "I left my brain in Pyongyang".. probably in a very slow and retarded way.

USA BTFO. Their citizen got a fate worse than death. This is what happens when you mess with the Jong.

...

This.
They replaced the Americants brain with kimchi, didn't tell them then sent him back as a fuck you.

Let's be honest here; NK wouldn't last 15 minutes if the US invaded them.
Kim is simply trying to piss off the US without crossing the border.

It's like an aggressive chihuahua who's protected by its owner so it does whatever it wants. If China backs off Kim will literally shit his pants

NK would probably last a few months.

that's a 22 year old wtf?

>Holy fuck, what did they do to him?

Death by snu-snu

came here to post this, the guy looks much older

This. Seoul would probably be blown to bits by the Norks during the invasion and the insurgency afterwards could last a long time.

Doubt it. Like 90% of all their missile tests failed so far and they even had fake weapons during their militiary parades.
Hell they barely have the resources to feed their own people.

kek chad BTFO

I can imagine the NK leaders being mad enough to have nuke mines under the sea ready to detonate and destroy a whole invading fleet.They are that nuts. Just remember Americans :- talk is cheap. Look what happened to you guys in Vietnam... numbers of forces are and capital spent on them are just that, numbers. Ultimatly what you do with the numbers (tactics/strategy) determine the result.

Memes aside, do you lads feel any sympathy for a fellow human subjected to such inhuman cruelty for making a silly mistake that spun out of control?

probably some sort of lobotomy to ensure he stays quiet.

>nuke mines under the sea ready to detonate and destroy a whole invading fleet

Nukes are inefficient against fleet. In order to sink even a small ship you need to directly hit it with a nuke, not even a very close (

It was an anoxic brain injury, not a traumatic one

As if it needs to be said, don't go to fucking North Korea, don't go to Syria, and don't jump in a lava filled volcano full of acid spewing piranhas.

Ok and? Who said anything about detonating them under water?

>Dumb and edgy amerishart dies at the end of BASED Norks
Good.

>they barely have the resources to feed their own people.

They have no resources to feed their own people. Without the international food aid, North Korea would face hunger, even worse than they had in 1995-1999.

You can't just magically delete a country with millions of soldiers in 15 minutes though.

A quality post, as expected of our Sino-Anglican neighbors

tough luck!

Don't worry we got some Koreans running around lately

>Let's be honest here; NK wouldn't last 15 minutes if the US invaded them.
the problem is that south korea wouldnt either, we should have let them take the whole country so we could bomb it to shit without our allies suffering casualties

Where else are they supposed to detonate them? North Korean nuclear technology is on the 1940s level, they simply have no anti-ship missiles with nuclear warheads, and I doubt they'll develop them in any near future.

89 IQ grand strategy my friend. South Korea was a vital foothold during the Cold War

>someone feels sorry on Sup Forums
>go back to redd*t fuckers

Sauce? It's could be a Utopia, where they make themselves out to be shithole but have vastly superior EVERYTHING. The tourists that go there could be shown a sort of shitty Disneyland version of NK hence the minders keeping an eye on them at all times.

Smoke and mirrors m8. Smoke and mirrors.

Woah, North Korea is literally Wakanda

They don't need state-of-the-art weapons to level Seoul. Plus the new South Korean president is basically a pacifist who wants to prevent the full implementation of the THAAD defense system.

The North only needs a year tops to develop a nuke capable of hitting the US mainland and in the meantime already have the means to glass the South and Japan.

Kek stupid normalfag

you're fucking nutts bro

>going to best Korea and stealing a painting
Stupid burger lmao

>raped by small gook dicks
>mind broken in 17 months
KEK weak ass white bois.

>Ok and? Who said anything about detonating them under water?
>I can imagine the NK leaders being mad enough to have nuke mines under the sea ready to detonate and destroy a whole invading fleet.They are that nuts.
the person posting with your flag did, dumbass

>Holy fuck, what did they do to him?
Communism is a heck of a drug, don't do lefties kids

>t. Kim

>nuke mines under the sea ready to detonate and destroy a whole invading fleet.
that would be an incredible waste of a nuke, even more so than a surface detonation

Just throwing thought provoking ideas around, trying to have a discussion and maybe learn something/get some insight if I'm lucky.
You are fucking gay bro XD

Look at what happened to our guys in South Korea.

Stop being pedantic (gay) it won't get you far dumbass. Look at the general point please.

Not particularly desu, he's a dumb kid who probably was never punished, had any consequences for his actions, etc throughout his life. It would be no different from some punk ass kids driving their car off a cliff going 80MPH around here. I'm sure when he was first caught he probably laughed and shit until he realized he would actually face consequences.

Why should I care about them when there are millions starving in Sudan, who did nothing wrong and just have the misfortune of being born in a shithole warzone?

It was a banner actually.

The nuke mines could float the surface then shoot/spring up into the air then explode. There are you happy now! Use your imagination.

>proud ethnically pure warrior nation
1
>fat spic filled cultureless hellhole
0

>Why should I care about them when there are millions starving in Sudan, who did nothing wrong and just have the misfortune of being born in a shithole warzone?
Because caring doesn't require a lot. I feel for those people too, and I can do so without reveling in another's torture.

Compassion is not a scarce resource. There's enough in our hearts for everyone, even idiots.

>or it is him but he is the carrier of some kind of biological weapon

This. Farewell burgers

Sorry, but feeling for them won't help them at all.

No, your caring is meaningless and shallow.

or they gave him back because north korea couldnt afford to pay the life support anymore

cant make any money if your forced laborer is in a coma
that doesnt make it any less genuine

I'd kill myself if I felt the same compassion to some third worlders suffering as I'd feel for my parents if they'd suffer in the same manner.

Baby steps. If everyone on Earth hardened their heart, it would be a far worse place.

Only nobody said that except for you. Compassion isn't a binary choice.

Compassion where I'm not ready to do anything meaningful over people dying in brutal ways is shallow and meaningless compassion

Hahahaha get fucked Yanks.

I'm not reveling, I'm just not really feeling much sympathy for the guy. No less than any other teen/kid who does something stupid and gets killed.

>Compassion where I'm not ready to do anything meaningful over people dying
"Not ready" and "not able" are not the same.

>is shallow and meaningless compassion
It's nether. An emotion I actually and instinctively feel cannot be shallow, nor can feeling a natural compassion for my fellow man be meaningless. It "means" my heart and mind aren't distorted or apathetic.