What happened to Otto Warmbier in North Korea? | DW Documentary

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  • Опубликовано: 26 ноя 2020
  • US student Otto Warmbier was sentenced to 15 years in a North Korean labor camp in 2016. Warmbier was released the following year, but he died of brain damage shortly after his return to the United States. Was he really the victim of torture?
    Otto Warmbier was sentenced to 15 years hard labor in 2016 after being convicted of attempting to steal a propaganda poster during a trip to Pyongyang. Just over a year on he was dead, having been sent home to the US in a vegetative state. US President Donald Trump tweeted that he had been "tortured beyond belief " in North Korea. The US president blamed both the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and the Obama administration for Warmbier’s death - and Trump appeared before the media with the student’s parents. This was at the peak of the North Korean missile crisis. Later, as relations between Trump and Kim Jong Un became warmer, the US president changed his tune. In 2019 Trump said that he believed that Kim did not know what happened to the US student much to the consternation of Warmbier’s parents.
    What really happened to Otto Warmbier in North Korea? Veteran foreign correspondent Klaus Scherer sets out to try to find out. In the documentary, Scherer interviews a number of people with knowledge of the case who have been largely unheard up to now. He shows that a US court investigating a liability case against North Korea brought by Warmbier’s parents also ignored important witnesses, who continue to cast doubt on the torture allegations. These include the coroner in Cincinnati who examined Warmbier’s body. She believes that the account given by North Korean doctors is credible. They claim that Warmbier had inadvertently been given too high a dose of sedatives by prison staff. This, the medics say was the cause of his state of unresponsive wakefulness. Could Trump’s initial torture charges simply have been motivated by political opportunism?
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Комментарии • 39 тыс.

  • @skylinecyber3538
    @skylinecyber3538 3 года назад +38294

    Lesson learnt :Never visit a country where you government doesnt have an embassy.

    • @mimymar2215
      @mimymar2215 3 года назад +5385

      Lesson 2: Respect the rules of the country you visit!

    • @smellycat264
      @smellycat264 3 года назад +426

      Agreed

    • @carenboston2996
      @carenboston2996 3 года назад +162

      I will

    • @samanthaschwartz2316
      @samanthaschwartz2316 3 года назад +1926

      Well, and if you do go, follow the rules. It is typical for Americans and other Western foreigners to not be able to comprehend such tightly state controlled citizenship, and so these frat-boy kids go for a thrill, don't get enough being shuffled around to what the country wants you to see and be able to do, and pushes the boundary. This can be the dire result. Terribly tragic ending, but a Westerner provoking this foreign entity who suffers with such vanity and the innate need to show control and force as Kim Jong Un does, of course they will be made example of. I don't know if he was fully tortured, but he was obviously neglected in some way, and it is terrible no matter what happened. That poor family suffers endlessly forever now, knowing their child made one stupid mistake that almost anywhere else in the world would have not even been punishable. But NK is not a free country.

    • @T.Sullivan
      @T.Sullivan 3 года назад +699

      Or don’t steal shit from that country

  • @alisonparenzee133
    @alisonparenzee133 3 года назад +7202

    North Korea exists in a different dimension. I wouldn't go there if I was paid.

    • @Natalee956
      @Natalee956 3 года назад +164

      I don’t understand going to NK
      And steal
      Definitely didn’t think

    • @donnabaardsen5372
      @donnabaardsen5372 3 года назад +20

      Amen!

    • @yagikidd2300
      @yagikidd2300 3 года назад +83

      i heard you can get arrested if you leave your tour guide group and the tour guide gets arrested too since they allowed you to wander off O-O

    • @yagikidd2300
      @yagikidd2300 3 года назад +16

      @@Natalee956 i mean i read an article and they said he was drunk.

    • @Natalee956
      @Natalee956 3 года назад +4

      @@yagikidd2300 yes I read that to

  • @jemma6596
    @jemma6596 6 месяцев назад +663

    Do not go to a dictatorship & expect to be treated like you are in a democracy.

    • @pauliedi6573
      @pauliedi6573 3 месяца назад +15

      Including a trump regime

    • @Deezhan
      @Deezhan 3 месяца назад

      @@pauliedi6573 Take your TDS pills before turning on the computer next time.

    • @howardgofstein7366
      @howardgofstein7366 2 месяца назад +1

      Absolutely!!

    • @ullgeologist
      @ullgeologist 2 месяца назад +13

      @@pauliedi6573Or an Obama/Biden regime.

    • @moonbalancedd
      @moonbalancedd 2 месяца назад +4

      when I see these youtube videos of people on guided tours in NK laughing around (you can look them up), I get really concerned. they think the worst that can happen to you is get scolded.

  • @rhondaarnold5249
    @rhondaarnold5249 5 месяцев назад +272

    His walk as they are holding him up to go to "court" says it all..

    • @user-ru6mc1qb8o
      @user-ru6mc1qb8o 24 дня назад +12

      Animals

    • @rashiidabdallah1648
      @rashiidabdallah1648 19 дней назад

      They not coz they were protecting their country. You Americans need education ​@@user-ru6mc1qb8o

    • @JoeBlow-fp5ng
      @JoeBlow-fp5ng 4 дня назад +5

      That much horrible torture and anyone would confess to killing Abraham Lincoln.

    • @user9xyz836
      @user9xyz836 2 дня назад

      Animals have nothing to do with politics. ​@@user-ru6mc1qb8o

    • @user-ro9td4mc1g
      @user-ro9td4mc1g День назад

      They are demon😢

  • @CBF922
    @CBF922 2 года назад +2281

    "These North Korean prisons are not ideal"
    Can tell this guy is a politician

    • @thebiggestposer8810
      @thebiggestposer8810 2 года назад +12

      Hm, Objective is now Political? Learning new things every day.

    • @juliuszkocinski7478
      @juliuszkocinski7478 2 года назад +62

      Or diplomat. Basically on higher levels words mean more than they sound. "We are in great concern" can mean a war-like ultimatum

    • @anthyman1
      @anthyman1 2 года назад +50

      He knows he's walking on eggshells that might start WWIII if they crack.

    • @laurasedor4641
      @laurasedor4641 2 года назад +8

      OMG right I'm over here watching him go thru mental gymnastics to say those things...

    • @leahtv7778
      @leahtv7778 2 года назад +1

      It's Vice, it's how they always act

  • @felix920
    @felix920 3 года назад +2133

    Lesson learned: Never visit a country which your government is virtually at war with

    • @ronald8557
      @ronald8557 3 года назад +36

      Understandable that some people go for the sense of adventure. Though I'd take caution in the worst case scenario that if a war breaks out while your there on vacation, you will be a tourist turned prisoner overnight.

    • @briancrawford8751
      @briancrawford8751 3 года назад +27

      We're still at war with them. There's technically only a cease fire in effect.

    • @beot-kkot
      @beot-kkot 3 года назад +7

      I live in a country that is technically still at war with them (South Korea).

    • @amandanegrete1306
      @amandanegrete1306 3 года назад +10

      @Brian Crawford we have heard the Warmbier’s plight again and again. Never once have they provided a “reason” as to why they financially supported his “NK PARTY TOUR”. OW had recently “visited” communist Cuba.
      OW and his parents were not ignorant or impaired yet they supported his “trip”.
      They have been evasive at best when asked questions that don’t fit their narrative.

    • @hannahcabana5403
      @hannahcabana5403 3 года назад +17

      And if you do go and visit, DO NOT STEAL a totalitarian government's poster.

  • @sofiabamhamed8507
    @sofiabamhamed8507 7 месяцев назад +582

    I can never imagine the pain him or his family had to go through, i pray he's in a better place and that his family finds peace

    • @LuisLopez-br3cb
      @LuisLopez-br3cb 7 месяцев назад +11

      His family didn’t care enough it seems.

    • @jorgemota6776
      @jorgemota6776 6 месяцев назад

      Foreigners don't know what really happen to him. Only speculation to put more hate on north Korea leader.

    • @No_jews_allowed
      @No_jews_allowed 5 месяцев назад +4

      He was a juuish spyyy😂😂😂

    • @lennarthagen3638
      @lennarthagen3638 5 месяцев назад

      How is he in a better place? He's dead. Stupid comment.

    • @thenotoriousgib_
      @thenotoriousgib_ 4 месяца назад +4

      Warm beer got his cap peeled off

  • @ashakabeta
    @ashakabeta 6 месяцев назад +585

    He was killed because they couldn't afford him coming home and telling everything he witnessed. North Korea is too secretive to allow that. This will always haunt me as a human being.

    • @Peekaboo-Kitty
      @Peekaboo-Kitty 5 месяцев назад +25

      Finally a smart comment!

    • @misssunshine7650
      @misssunshine7650 4 месяца назад

      He didn’t see anything . They killed him cuz they can and they wanted to show that they will get away with that and also Kim is a narcissist and he wanted to revenge and killed American citizen. That’s the whole truth

    • @DesGardius-me7gf
      @DesGardius-me7gf 3 месяца назад +17

      Yes, that’s what a North Korean defector actually said.

    • @Lizzybaby30500
      @Lizzybaby30500 3 месяца назад +10

      😂😂😂 bro no he went with a whole group.. theres worse prison camps out there like Russia has a prison camp in Siberia that's horrible. He literally went on the 5th floor making fun of north Korea leader it wasnt about the poster and he was drunk being stupid I'm sure they found the poster at the airport they would not have done this for nothing trust me

    • @angelam886
      @angelam886 3 месяца назад +2

      No not true. Lots of Americans have done the same thing and gone on that floor.

  • @plotting6863
    @plotting6863 3 года назад +4033

    I'm really confused about people being like "Oh I saw no signs of torture".
    There's tons of types of torture that wouldn't leave marks. Including giving him rotten food, choking him, chemical stuff that would be gone from the system by the time he got back home, psychological. Why does it seem like a debate?

    • @kcyoung427
      @kcyoung427 3 года назад +181

      @Kris Kripotos I dunno wtf you're talking about considering this is made by a German equivalent of PBS, and the fact they never blamed Trump in the documentary for Otto's condition, only pointing out that he failed to deliver any justice other than using the Warmbiers as a political pawn for a hot minute of fame.
      Otto's condition is due to what happened to him in NK obviously, but what happened to him was a direct result of his actions. Trump simply used the Warmbiers for his gain, but he was not blamed in the documentary for causing the situation.

    • @HamzaSopra
      @HamzaSopra 3 года назад +49

      Probably NK propaganda, just like the chinese propaganda, the internet is filled with it

    • @mikedavis786
      @mikedavis786 3 года назад +8

      Where did Obama fail?3 guesses.

    • @gusp6612
      @gusp6612 3 года назад +78

      Choking would definitely leave marks. rotten food shouldn’t affect the brain like that.

    • @HelTra91
      @HelTra91 3 года назад +144

      You answered your own question. If the torture doesn't leave any marks, then obviously there are no signs of torture. You can't charge someone for a crime based on what they could have possibly done, you need proof.

  • @Macdaddy590
    @Macdaddy590 3 года назад +5599

    They couldn't let him live to tell about what he saw.

    • @honeybadger2986
      @honeybadger2986 3 года назад +113

      Yup.

    • @loricook5330
      @loricook5330 3 года назад +112

      Absolutely!!!

    • @sibsbubbles
      @sibsbubbles 3 года назад +454

      Yep. Sole reason he came back like a vegetable. I'm betting 2 days or so before he was due to leave, they drugged the fuck out of him and smothered him thus explaining his condition and lack of bed sores. Did they ever do a toxicology upon arrival?

    • @bdkmanis84
      @bdkmanis84 3 года назад +19

      Agree

    • @markmitchell450
      @markmitchell450 3 года назад +187

      There's plenty of ways to cause brain damage without physical indications of torture or abuse having spent time in such an institution im sure that they didn't want him to be able to tell

  • @logger22
    @logger22 5 месяцев назад +113

    That British guy had no idea how right he was when he said “Well that’s the last we’ll see of you” when the guards took him away

    • @adriansverckov1862
      @adriansverckov1862 7 дней назад +4

      What was meant to be a joke, has turned into reality.

    • @mrsrock7641
      @mrsrock7641 6 дней назад +2

      Yeah he is a scouser. We have a dry sense of humour in Liverpool. Scary that it became reality 😟

    • @paulroustan3643
      @paulroustan3643 4 дня назад

      Didn’t this British guy looked like Dolph Lundgren

  • @gloriarangott8803
    @gloriarangott8803 6 месяцев назад +60

    If otto had been well cared for, he would be alive and well now.

    • @elephantdanceparty7917
      @elephantdanceparty7917 2 месяца назад +6

      Or if he just hadn’t gone to North Korea

    • @abhishekmahajan7070
      @abhishekmahajan7070 Месяц назад +3

      ​@@elephantdanceparty7917Or if he just hadn't taken the poster off the wall

    • @coochieman7887
      @coochieman7887 Месяц назад +2

      @@abhishekmahajan7070Or if he didn’t enter the restricted floor…

    • @ABrooksCupid
      @ABrooksCupid 28 дней назад +6

      @@abhishekmahajan7070 The video they supposedly had of him stealing the portrait is extremely blurry to the point where you can't see who it is and no poster was found on him or in his luggage. Also, his "confession" given at the press conference was clearly not written by him.

    • @abhishekmahajan7070
      @abhishekmahajan7070 27 дней назад +2

      @@ABrooksCupid Now that's quite controversial. You can never trust them iykyk

  • @PandaGraciosa
    @PandaGraciosa 3 года назад +13570

    I went to high school with Otto and this incident will haunt me forever. I didn't know him well at all, I only had one class with him and a few with his brother but I did know some of his close friends from various extracurriculars. I still remember vividly the entire day when we learned he was "coming home". I was at lifeguarding at the community pool and we got the news that he was coming home and he was in a coma. At first we all were kind of talking about how famous he's going to be and how he'll probably write a book and go on speaking tours, but then some lady (who wasn't a community member she just worked at the pool) said "You guys realize he's coming back to die" Ouch. That hit hard. Frankly I don't think she should've said this to a group of his friends, classmates, and acquaintances, like, read the room lady, but we all knew she was right. It just wouldn't sink in for us, his peers, that something so horrible could happen to someone our age from our school in our tiny community. His funeral was the only one I've ever attended for someone under like 60. I know I am incredibly blessed for that. It was and still is surreal.
    This all being said, for the sake of his friends and family who come and watch these videos and deal with his death every day, please keep nasty comments about him "deserving it" to yourself. No one knows what happened, no one knows if he in fact did anything at all or if he was just very unlucky to have been set up and used as a political pawn. The claims of a country that works tirelessly to brainwash its own citizens believe outlandish lies should at least come under some level of suspicion or scrutiny when claiming anything.

    • @cjwestover4527
      @cjwestover4527 3 года назад +783

      I am so sorry for everything all his friends and family have gone through. I cried when I found out he died.
      I am sickened by anyone that says " well don't steal " or " don't go to NK" he doesn't deserve victim blaming.

    • @AllisonMarie1993
      @AllisonMarie1993 3 года назад +580

      I would never say that he deserved it. No one deserves to die. I'm sorry for your loss.
      I think that people are just confused about why someone would choose to go to North Korea.

    • @PandaGraciosa
      @PandaGraciosa 3 года назад +548

      @@AllisonMarie1993 No no of course, it’s the WAY people comment. I just think it’s no ones place to make judgements and it helps absolutely no one. Hindsight is 20/20. People say things like that to make themselves feel superior, nothing more. Thousands of tourists go to NK every year for a thrill trip and illegally videotape things and do all sorts of risky things and don’t get caught, and you know what? The comments are overwhelmingly composed of how “brave” they are. Lexie Alford is the youngest girl to travel to every country in the world. She’s gone to Yemen, Syria, North Korea, DRC, overwhelmingly independently and all as a young girl! The amount of worst case scenarios there infinite. Yet she is celebrated and praised for her bravery and adventurous spirit. Is it only stupid if something bad happens? Hell, anyone who has ever checked their phone while driving has in that moment put their faith in the worst case scenario not happening. That’s the thing, people pick and choose what they want to criticize and don’t check themselves first before spouting their holier than thou criticism. And unfortunately here, the people affected by this criticism most are his surviving family and friends, he’s not here to respond to criticisms. This goes for any news story, people need to check themselves and possible hypocrisy before they judge.

    • @PandaGraciosa
      @PandaGraciosa 3 года назад +177

      @@AllisonMarie1993 did not mean that to be an essay so sorry, and i am NOT directing this at you. I just am passionate about this having been on through this whole drama and seeing all the hate and misinformation.

    • @waltblackadar4690
      @waltblackadar4690 3 года назад +270

      @@PandaGraciosa With all due respect, hindsight is NOT 20/20 here. There have been many cases where Western tourists have been abducted by the NK Government for political purposes. NK engages in hostage diplomacy so any visit, especially for a US citizen, is effectively playing Russian Roulette. Sometimes you wind up fine like Alford. Other times you don't. It doesn't really matter if he - or his parents - are here to respond to criticism. The simple fact is that as a responsible parent I do everything I could to prevent my child from going to NK. They decided otherwise - a decision that I believe was (and still is) unwise regardless of the outcome.
      Trying to act like this was some unknown or remote outcome is disingenuous. Blaming the State Department for not resolving it and willingly being used as a political pawn? That's truly the hypocrisy here.

  • @sasukesbussy7101
    @sasukesbussy7101 3 года назад +6118

    this shit is one of the scariest things i’ve ever heard.
    there’s not enough money in the world to make me go to nk

    • @amosesh5898
      @amosesh5898 3 года назад +114

      Actually a great place to visit if you simply respect the people unlike Otto

    • @simpysompywomb5470
      @simpysompywomb5470 3 года назад +253

      I mean... don’t steal. Doesn’t matter if it’s in NK or not, just don’t steal. Especially in a country like that

    • @katarinahinsey3931
      @katarinahinsey3931 3 года назад +30

      Or if you do, be respectful.

    • @matyzchaty9969
      @matyzchaty9969 3 года назад +88

      @Jessey H stfu already, he has stolen something like eat concequences of your actions. If you are dumb enough to do something like that in North Korea you il pay for that.

    • @fuzzamajumula
      @fuzzamajumula 3 года назад +184

      ​@@amosesh5898 Really? It is actually one of the world's most repressive regimes. If you don't allow your own citizens to leave your boarders, you are not a "great place to visit." If you get your kicks from indulging in lavish excess while people around you are starving, perhaps it is "great" for you. Otto was a drunken kid who pulled a stupid stunt for a one-of-a-kind souvenir. He never dreamed there'd be such dire consequences to a childish, drunken impulse. And if Kim had not decided it was again time to extort money from the U.S., there wouldn't have been.

  • @vanoramoon674
    @vanoramoon674 5 месяцев назад +65

    My heart breaks for the young man's torment he went through and for his parents. What an awful horrendous loss. Tears flow for thee.

  • @elianad2693
    @elianad2693 Месяц назад +79

    The case is rather more horrific. Otto looked even more terrified when he attended the press conference. Nobody can really imagine the amount of torture this young man had been through before he reached US. RIP OTTO

    • @houssineatm7827
      @houssineatm7827 22 дня назад +2

      Well you can imagine it, actually u can see it. It's something like what happened in "abu ghraib and guantanamu

  • @noneanymous3465
    @noneanymous3465 3 года назад +3791

    I don't see why people want to go to NK I mean their own citizen want to ESCAPE from there 😒

    • @olliojenarter
      @olliojenarter 3 года назад +274

      I honestly think some people go just to feel like they're "special" because they have more freedom than the countries own people.

    • @Peter-pd9hy
      @Peter-pd9hy 3 года назад +7

      @@olliojenarter Dumbass

    • @mikayounglady1856
      @mikayounglady1856 3 года назад +2

      @@olliojenarter aaaaàadfdàaassaassaßssassaaaaaaaassaaaaaaàaaaàaaàaaaàa as aaaaaaaaaasaaaasaaàaaaaaaaàA

    • @anotherarmchairhistorian2831
      @anotherarmchairhistorian2831 3 года назад +62

      Morbid curiosity?

    • @matthewp9156
      @matthewp9156 3 года назад +109

      @@anotherarmchairhistorian2831 Yea I think about 90% are curious, and the other 10% want to brag to their friends. Either way, you couldn't pay me enough to see some watered-down, artificial tour of N. Korea while guards literally watch you 24/7 waiting for you to make a mistake.

  • @Mikerulez101
    @Mikerulez101 3 года назад +5351

    Imagine being tortured for years until you're brain dead just because you took down a poster. What a warped sense of morality North Korea has.

    • @chrischris5510
      @chrischris5510 3 года назад +228

      Imagine following the words of Marx down to the loss of your freedom, your freedom of speech, religion, all rights to humane treatment. Then the neighbors that fought against your family, friends and government on your communist ideology is living free, healthy, happy… Venezuela, Cuba, China, Russia, North Korea.. man I’m sure if we keep trying communism will work!! It can’t fail again! 🤦‍♂️

    • @redwater4778
      @redwater4778 3 года назад +278

      Imagine believing the official news narrative given to you by the CIA.

    • @destructorzz7197
      @destructorzz7197 3 года назад +172

      North Korea does not have any morality. You need to see the interview with the North Korean Defectors.

    • @destructorzz7197
      @destructorzz7197 3 года назад +86

      @@redwater4778 imagine being so dumb that you don't believe anything you read.

    • @redwater4778
      @redwater4778 3 года назад +30

      @@destructorzz7197 Trump got those three Korean American spies released . There was no interviews with any of them . They got off the plane and quickly disappeared??

  • @AaronOlafson
    @AaronOlafson 2 месяца назад +15

    Something is suspect as the doctor who went to N. Korea stated he examined all of Ottos body and no sign of torture. The parents state his teeth were rearranged by a pair of pliers or something and the bottom of his feet had markings of some sort. The worst part is why didn't the parents do an autopsy (they claim it's against their religion). Oh well, we'll never know.

  • @mickenziewilliams5796
    @mickenziewilliams5796 4 месяца назад +16

    They’re leaving out that no one can prove it was even Otto taking down the poster

  • @Katy-se2fn
    @Katy-se2fn 3 года назад +1478

    My stomach dropped when the doctor confirmed he couldn’t communicate. My first thought was it makes sense to torture someone with the end result being them literally unable to tell anyone.

    • @luv2aptnz
      @luv2aptnz 3 года назад +101

      There are ways to torture someone and leave no evidence.

    • @Arte.mi.
      @Arte.mi. 3 года назад +107

      @@jmj7196 are you sure it was him? Because in the video you can’t see it clearly. And should someone be so tortured and then die just because of a poster?

    • @llYossarian
      @llYossarian 3 года назад +15

      @@Arte.mi. His parents were sure it was him so what are you trying to say?

    • @MeliMachiavelli
      @MeliMachiavelli 3 года назад +36

      Sounds like they lobotomized him.

    • @llYossarian
      @llYossarian 3 года назад +7

      @Pol Pot Who's wrong? I was questioning the notion that the man they returned wasn't even Otto. I didn't say anything about him being tortured. Don't include me in your bullshit.

  • @Reesy2002
    @Reesy2002 3 года назад +4984

    They made sure that when they handed him over he wouldn't be able to tell what he went threw and seen.

    • @pspk70
      @pspk70 3 года назад +105

      u r right !!

    • @jamieayy260
      @jamieayy260 3 года назад +63

      I agree

    • @mariec3527
      @mariec3527 3 года назад +52

      Exactly

    • @kalashrestha3251
      @kalashrestha3251 3 года назад +40

      I think they were genius to do evil in their heart.

    • @valeriedemello1794
      @valeriedemello1794 3 года назад +108

      There was nothing that kid could have told us that US Intelligence didn't already know.

  • @synergisticcollusion134
    @synergisticcollusion134 8 месяцев назад +149

    My future Mother-in-law was born and raised in North Korea. She and 2 of her relatives successfully escaped with the remaining relatives supporting and even aiding their escape, KNOWING they'd be severely punished. Shortly after they made it out, she met and swiftly married my boyfriend's father, who was in the Army and stationed in South Korea. She never heard from the relatives they left behind and she STILL acts and lives as if she's in North Korea to this day, even though she's been out of there for longer than she ever lived there! 😬😬😮‍💨

    • @litmore7590
      @litmore7590 7 месяцев назад +15

      What do you mean she acts like she lives in NK ?

    • @austinsanders-983
      @austinsanders-983 7 месяцев назад +21

      @@litmore7590 Maybe they're trying to say that she still isn't adjusted to South Korea and still feels as though she's trapped in NK? That's what I get anyway

    • @wildestcowboy2668
      @wildestcowboy2668 7 месяцев назад +5

      ​@@austinsanders-983Excellent point my friend

    • @BL4CK4556
      @BL4CK4556 6 месяцев назад +4

      Who cares?

    • @tomk.2601
      @tomk.2601 6 месяцев назад +11

      Her heart may remain captive with those loved ones that she left behind. 😔

  • @unsure9166
    @unsure9166 7 месяцев назад +33

    I think he was treated well in the hospital the few months he was there but before the hospital in the NK jail he was treated horribly. They let him recover for a few month in the hospital then called the USA to come get him

    • @queennzinga5988
      @queennzinga5988 4 месяца назад +1

      You can't cover torture sign on your body regardless of your colour.

  • @oliviaherring1189
    @oliviaherring1189 2 года назад +485

    After watching personal interviews of NK's own citizens that survived brutality at the hands of NK, I don't know how anyone can say this guy didn't suffer any abuse. They pretty much let him go when they knew he couldn't recover and tell of his abuse.

    • @jenicdarling9425
      @jenicdarling9425 Год назад

      Seriously like there’s no human right organizations allowed there which makes sense since it’s like the 2nd holocaust happening at those camps. A former guard testified how guards are TRAINED to treat the prisoners as “subhumans”. They deal with being worked to the bone (many too weak and dying doing it), starved where they’ll catch rats, beaten, abused (in all ways like sexually) and of course sadistic methods of torture. A lot going on behind closed doors I mean they were kidnappers with demands holding a kid hostage
      Like ok say the cause of death wasn’t from abuse or torture and that he did die because they did give him a sedative and that cause the brain damage, he still went through hell there with how prisoners are treated there, they have no rights and at the mercy of the brainwashed guards. I don’t believe for a second they never laid one finger on him, and being a American in freaking North Korea! Where it’s drilled into the citizens since birth how Americans are the enemy, evil demons, animals who they need to beat and kill off or die trying to. Yeah the guards are trained not to have humanity even on their own people not even kids or babies yet they’re saying they treated him good? I can’t help but look sideways at them for saying they gave him a sedative to help him because he was really agitated and troubled like naw they wouldn’t have cared. With such a important political prisoner I doubt the leader “didn’t know”.
      And I say this with hate against the North Korean government not the people who are victims of their own country, basically brainwashed cult hostages just trying to survive.

    • @TelzAll
      @TelzAll Год назад +5

      Exactly.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They don't want to say he was abused because that's going to start another problem. Based on all the testimonials of citizens of NK I'm almost possible something was done to him.

    • @FronteirWolf
      @FronteirWolf 14 часов назад

      They abused him alright, but they didn't necessarily cause his brain injury, they might've, but they might not have. If they didn't do it, that doesn't significantly improve how it looks for them. They are still evil to the bone even if they didn't directly cause the brain injury.
      People get brain injuries like Otto's with no torture.

  • @skylerthompson5844
    @skylerthompson5844 3 года назад +815

    Moral of the story: Stay away from countries that hate your own.

    • @andreyblue
      @andreyblue 3 года назад +46

      Moral of the story : don't travel to another country and behave like an idiot . I guess the NK didn't appreciate the " it was just a prank bro" stuff .

    • @mayn90s19
      @mayn90s19 2 года назад +11

      How about don't steal posters lol. He would be safe in the U.S. if he wasn't a thief. It's shitty but cmon. It's one thing to travel there, it's another to know their laws and still break them. Ignorance is no excuse. I say the same thing to every tourist traveling outside their country. Know the laws and you will be fine. Unless you're going to a no go zone or a terrorist hot spot. Honduras and shit are way more dangerous as far as the population goes. North Korea you just have to worry about the government watching you. Better believe you are watched every waking second you are there.
      Now did he deserve this kind of sentence? I don't believe so of course.

    • @Tommy88-
      @Tommy88- 2 года назад +3

      @@mayn90s19 why would you even go to a place where making a petty mistake could cost you everything?

    • @mayn90s19
      @mayn90s19 2 года назад +3

      @@Tommy88- Dude I don't agree with a 15 year sentence, but Thievery isn't a mistake. It is very much a conscious decision.
      I don't believe he was sent to a concentration camp. He looked almost the same as when he was sentenced. Of course other than his demeanor.

    • @dablair8587
      @dablair8587 2 года назад +2

      Like if United states was better 😂😂😂 I’m dead xD
      Did you know that you allow company such as coca cola to redirect rivers in other country such as Mexico in order to bring more water and faster to coca cola factories ? Those villages lose access to water and when they go to the store the coke is cheaper than the water …. You end up with the biggest mortality rate of childrens and obesity in the world because some people want to drink rhum and cokes …
      I’m wondering which country r
      Truly has more negative impact on the world 😂😂😂🦾

  • @guidc
    @guidc 15 дней назад +8

    People now are talking about bio weapons that could put him in coma without leaving any trace... that would be very scary.

  • @ROKBUZZCUT
    @ROKBUZZCUT 2 месяца назад +28

    Otto Warmbier has learned that you absolutely cannot play pranks in North Korea.

    • @lois5593
      @lois5593 13 дней назад +2

      I don't think he is a prankster, he was in the wrong place at the wrong time ... those images could also easily have been doctored

    • @earldriskill3505
      @earldriskill3505 5 дней назад

      The video may have easily been someone else, used as an excuse to persecute him. N Korea is an evil regime. Human life means nothing to them.

  • @nick51elite54
    @nick51elite54 3 года назад +5200

    I feel so bad for his parents, no parents should have to go through this

    • @susannorman4476
      @susannorman4476 3 года назад +213

      Yes but they let their beloved son go over there in the first place. How stupid can parents be???

    • @jomarz1828
      @jomarz1828 3 года назад +142

      They should have taught him to respect

    • @monslay5624
      @monslay5624 3 года назад +114

      @@susannorman4476 , how could they stop him from going there, if he was over 18?

    • @Cbd_7ohm
      @Cbd_7ohm 3 года назад +39

      @Sandra Turajlich OK trumpanzee.

    • @abdur1300
      @abdur1300 3 года назад +85

      American: I got so bored that I really want to visit NK and stole the photo of Kim..
      His friends: That's seems like fun
      Kim: Alright, inject him with unkwnown chemical substances, make him suffer, and make sure he die in the next few years
      His parents: Kim's regime is so cruel (without mentioning the stupidity of his son's action and the current situation of NK's regime)

  • @larrip5704
    @larrip5704 3 года назад +3114

    The slogan of the tour company, "We take you to destinations your mother would rather you stay away from ", would be the first indication or common sense thought to not book with them or follow others.

    • @lynnecage3271
      @lynnecage3271 3 года назад +83

      Yep! Always listen to your mother

    • @louieandtommysdiscountedit3177
      @louieandtommysdiscountedit3177 3 года назад +153

      REVISED TITLE: “We take you to destinations any logical person with common sense would rather you stay away from”

    • @rafff6177
      @rafff6177 3 года назад +26

      I hear you, but when you don’t think you could die from it, that slogan sounds quite exciting to young people, now we know what can happen it seems silly to want to do it after reading that

    • @ygmshigh4396
      @ygmshigh4396 3 года назад +16

      @Otto Rocket bro it’s embarrassing, not even funny.

    • @smallstudiodesign
      @smallstudiodesign 3 года назад +25

      Then by that advice I’d never go anywhere else, not even the United States o’Merica .. because my mamma thinks the USA is the most dangerous country of all (statistically she’s correct).

  • @BriskyJam
    @BriskyJam 7 месяцев назад +182

    You’re forgiven Otto. You didn’t deserve death for a mistake. May you rest in peace & May your family find peace

    • @TheRisky9
      @TheRisky9 5 месяцев назад +36

      If he even did it. The evidence is very questionable.

    • @Mko007
      @Mko007 3 месяца назад +11

      The video is SO grainy, I’m not sure he was even there and he shouldn’t need to be FORGIVEN. THAT COUNTRY needs to be forgiven

    • @zjz8796
      @zjz8796 2 месяца назад +4

      he steal and didnt follow the rules

    • @BriskyJam
      @BriskyJam 2 месяца назад +14

      @@zjz8796 Regardless, there’s no excuse to kill some one over theft. That’s unjust and cruel for the crime committed. That’s the same as saying if you ever stole a candy bar from walmart or any store that you deserve death. It’s just isn’t right. Inhumane to say the least

    • @vikaspai294
      @vikaspai294 Месяц назад

      @@BriskyJam Its a dictator's country. If u cant follow the rules, its better to not visit the country.

  • @lim8581
    @lim8581 7 месяцев назад +193

    This documentary delves into a deeply troubling and complex story, leaving us with lingering questions about Otto Warmbier's tragic fate. It's a reminder of the importance of seeking the truth, even in the face of political shifts. Thanks for shedding light on this heart-wrenching case.

    • @michaelfisher5276
      @michaelfisher5276 7 месяцев назад +13

      They had no reason to arrest him and whatever happened after is linked to what they did while he was in custody

    • @dana102083
      @dana102083 6 месяцев назад +5

      ​@@michaelfisher5276may e no reason in your country. That's what happens with dictatorship run states.

    • @De4dSp0t
      @De4dSp0t 6 месяцев назад

      Did you really use ChatGPT to make a comment?

    • @lynnegackstetter2779
      @lynnegackstetter2779 5 месяцев назад

      A NK spy that escaped NK said he was given a biological poison so he couldn't tell what NK did to him while he was a prisoner. Kim has used this to kill his own military members that try to gain too much financially. Even his own family members.

    • @DaVinciSketch
      @DaVinciSketch 4 месяца назад +4

      lol ChatGPT bot commenting the same script on every doc on here😂

  • @footballballstar9498
    @footballballstar9498 3 года назад +5232

    42 minutes into this and still have this feeling that we only know 10% of what really happened. This documentary didn't help answer my questions either.. rip otto

    • @deek64dk
      @deek64dk 3 года назад +220

      Tyler Stender
      I couldn't agree with you more, alot of unanswered questions just like many other foreign political issues😵😲😒

    • @johndoe-cd9vt
      @johndoe-cd9vt 3 года назад +205

      it's probably better to not know everything...

    • @angelbone4132
      @angelbone4132 3 года назад +252

      No this is propaganda against president trump

    • @otrrs
      @otrrs 3 года назад +95

      thank you for your review so i didnt have to watch the whole thing!

    • @footballballstar9498
      @footballballstar9498 3 года назад +10

      @@otrrs your welcome

  • @x-raymind7778
    @x-raymind7778 3 года назад +2299

    You couldn’t pay me to go to North Korea

    • @trialone5691
      @trialone5691 3 года назад +11

      AS AN AMERICAN. Not any westerner

    • @amyboitz717
      @amyboitz717 3 года назад +34

      @Angel Love right?!? Lol I get the thrill aspect, but when you're in another country, you are under their laws etc ..

    • @Visionery1
      @Visionery1 3 года назад +11

      On the one hand it must be quite interesting, unspoiled by western influence. Unlike what happens in France where theater patrons get together on stage, put down newspaper, watch as females urinate and call that art.

    • @sunshinesweetlove8238
      @sunshinesweetlove8238 3 года назад +10

      Nope you can send me anywhere else but I will not go to a country so secluded. If they take my passport, phone I’m not going.

    • @clpr2023
      @clpr2023 3 года назад +3

      Hell no. Everything you see if FAKE anyway.

  • @Thatskymoth234
    @Thatskymoth234 5 месяцев назад +16

    Pls, let this be a Netflix documentary

  • @macktruckergirl6049
    @macktruckergirl6049 3 месяца назад +9

    Not only should you not risk your life by visiting North Korea, if you chose to, you probably shouldn't disrespect their laws. There has been far too much that has happened to "tourists", including South Koreans, to think it would be okay to make the two fateful decisions that young man made.

  • @mae388
    @mae388 3 года назад +2821

    Yes he made the worst mistake of his life by even traveling there, but dang he didn't deserve this.

    • @FearOfTheTrooper
      @FearOfTheTrooper 2 года назад +25

      @Sergio Horacio Bustillo Mancilla because it's so shitty and unreal it is actually surreal, something out of other planet or dimension

    • @priceandpride
      @priceandpride 2 года назад +1

      don't eat pork

    • @nadogrl
      @nadogrl 2 года назад +27

      @@FearOfTheTrooper - But tourists never see the REAL N.K.

    • @BBCforyoHoe
      @BBCforyoHoe 2 года назад +40

      @@nadogrl exactly so why even go?

    • @tonij6986
      @tonij6986 2 года назад +19

      @Nex Wex 3 Ikr. They give you brief explanations in china before going there what to do n not. i don't blame north korea.

  • @nassmatic
    @nassmatic 3 года назад +935

    The lesson is: Always listen to your mother. When she tells you not to go to a certain country, listen to her.

    • @jwcw29
      @jwcw29 3 года назад +25

      It is very safe, i visited last year. Moral is don't steal.

    • @renatageisa5442
      @renatageisa5442 3 года назад +38

      @@jwcw29 it's not safe at all

    • @jwcw29
      @jwcw29 3 года назад +6

      @@renatageisa5442 Have you visited?

    • @TalesForTheCulture
      @TalesForTheCulture 3 года назад +9

      @Leonardo DaVinci Maybe it's the indignant behavior they believe & have seen some Americans display. They give harsh sentences to their citizens & even harsher sentences to foreigners because they feel their entire country has been disrespected. In their eyes, he probably was no different than a terrorist.

    • @valerieland6324
      @valerieland6324 3 года назад +3

      Mamma always right!!👍🏻 Even if ya don't realize till later😊 @nassmatic

  • @eeelizabethh95
    @eeelizabethh95 5 месяцев назад +10

    The last place you want to act out in. As a teenager, I still would have known better than this.

    • @Joe-ym6bw
      @Joe-ym6bw 2 месяца назад +2

      Yes to go there and cause trouble is stupid

  • @simonmaverick9201
    @simonmaverick9201 3 дня назад +3

    No signs of torture does not mean he was not tortured. Water boarding leaves no signs, for example.

    • @rudejase
      @rudejase 2 дня назад +2

      Yup, they said his brain damage resulted from lack of oxygen.

  • @christinagaller4374
    @christinagaller4374 3 года назад +710

    Never visit a country who looks at you as their number 1 enemy.

    • @ooduckoo
      @ooduckoo 3 года назад +7

      @Sneaker64BIT I’m in the west. Nobody claims NK is trying to push their regime onto other states. Where did you get that from?

    • @MartialArtswithLucyLu
      @MartialArtswithLucyLu 3 года назад +6

      @Sneaker64BIT Dude the west is not brainwashed the North Korea is brainwashed here!

    • @user-ff9rx
      @user-ff9rx 3 года назад

      In this case you shouldn't go any country

    • @jean6872
      @jean6872 3 года назад

      @@user-ff9rx Canada does not consider the USA as its #1 enemy.

    • @ukisbeggar8462
      @ukisbeggar8462 3 года назад +3

      Lol my friend went their as a tourist and came back safe. Instead of that, you should say "Follow the rules of the country you visit and don't try to be oversmart"

  • @ferensao
    @ferensao 3 года назад +1479

    Too young, too reckless, too immature. His parents should have warn him to stay away from NK

    • @smilingbuddha
      @smilingbuddha 3 года назад +45

      How is this parent's fault? The writing is on the wall

    • @Erizou90
      @Erizou90 3 года назад +84

      I feel for them, but I bet they were like "oh he's 21 now, he's an adult. He knows what he's doing" and let him go on his merry way.

    • @StoicSurvivor99
      @StoicSurvivor99 3 года назад +28

      @@smilingbuddha because it is their son. Parents need to take responsibility for the outcome of their kids.

    • @bigawdays5724
      @bigawdays5724 3 года назад +31

      He shouldn’t take that poster, he shouldn’t go to North Korea at the first time.

    • @janelle5442
      @janelle5442 3 года назад +25

      @@StoicSurvivor99 he was a grown man. You can only say or do so much

  • @HeyLetsTalkAboutIt
    @HeyLetsTalkAboutIt 7 месяцев назад +18

    Why would anyone in their right mind GO to North Korea voluntarily? That was a stupid decision. Otto didn’t deserve what happened to him and we will never know what really happened to him. 😢

    • @Peekaboo-Kitty
      @Peekaboo-Kitty 5 месяцев назад +2

      What's even more stupid is that his father funded the trip! How stupid to pay to send your son to North Korea.

    • @Onoesmahpie
      @Onoesmahpie Месяц назад

      ​​@@Peekaboo-Kittyreminds me of a video I watched where a rich kids dad bought him a plane after he got kicked out of flight school for being drunk. The kid of course ended up crashing the plane.
      Sometimes rich parents fail their kids by failing to teach them limitations or boundaries, because these parents have no such concepts

    • @Peekaboo-Kitty
      @Peekaboo-Kitty Месяц назад

      @@Onoesmahpie
      Tragic. Thanks for sharing.

  • @anstead9830
    @anstead9830 7 месяцев назад +42

    What Otto Warmbier did in North Korea was childish, reckless, and dangerous, but what was done to him for taking that poster was PURE EVIL. RIP Otto. 🕊

    • @mjhorvath2336
      @mjhorvath2336 6 месяцев назад

      He didn't DO anything! It was all a set-up! Lesson: DON'T GO TO N.Korea!

    • @TheRisky9
      @TheRisky9 5 месяцев назад +4

      You mean what he didn't do. The evidence is very questionable. Even a law student could argue reasonable doubt. and I have reasonable doubt he did it in the firs tplace.

  • @lucylu5622
    @lucylu5622 Год назад +2471

    The psychological anguish this man went through before his ultimate death is horrific to think about. I pray he rests in peace.

    • @NoToBigBro
      @NoToBigBro Год назад

      The mentally ill man that walked into a lion's den at a zoo and got eaten by lions... the anguish the man may or may not have experienced before ultimately being eaten alive is horrific to think about. I hope the half eaten man rests in peace.

    • @NoToBigBro
      @NoToBigBro Год назад +32

      @Lee Roland Well, some people turn a blind eye to evil, and satisfying their curiosity is reason enough to support evil. I feel no sympathy for anyone who goes there. Zero.

    • @lilyanmarcec
      @lilyanmarcec Год назад +26

      @Lee Roland Problem is not about going there. It's not steal. How come so many people are so dumb, didn't realize and even didn't mention about " Steal" .

    • @lilyanmarcec
      @lilyanmarcec Год назад +20

      @@NoToBigBro there are lots of people go there, and return home safely. If you steal, doesn't which country you go. you will get trouble.

    • @tatsuyatsujiuchi5652
      @tatsuyatsujiuchi5652 Год назад +3

      ​@@lilyanmarcec or dead.

  • @Bibby31
    @Bibby31 3 года назад +1012

    To think there are people willing to go to N.Korea, when in reality even its citizens are silently fighting for their lives just to get out of there..very ironic

    • @minalu274
      @minalu274 3 года назад +15

      Agreed

    • @MissMoneyJane
      @MissMoneyJane 3 года назад +18

      I agree also. You have to assume a certain risk to your life when you visit countries in extreme conflict. Still so very sad for the family. RIP Otto.

    • @Bibby31
      @Bibby31 3 года назад +10

      @@MissMoneyJane yes,ur right. if it's for fun,there are other safer and less complicated countries/places to visit. Tho, I'm still hoping North Koreans would get a chance to genuinely experience the world with freedom.

    • @miamor33765
      @miamor33765 3 года назад +6

      @@Bibby31 for that one day to happen the whole dynasty family of kim yung.. has to be put down... We don't know what cousin of them is desiring the same power and with what malicious ideas he would rule that county...... Is like cuba the castro brother are sames as twin evil soul.

    • @laritzamartinez5476
      @laritzamartinez5476 3 года назад +5

      Not to say the same but really close to that happens in Cuba. The only difference is that the Cuban government likes to paint Cuba as the best for the world to believe it, but is really far from the true.

  • @t.baltimore2004
    @t.baltimore2004 6 месяцев назад +12

    No one was held responsible for these horrible actions

    • @sp7749
      @sp7749 Месяц назад +1

      And no one ever will be. It's incredibly sad.

  • @susanhardie5440
    @susanhardie5440 5 месяцев назад +13

    The lesson is do not enter North Korea .

    • @Joe-ym6bw
      @Joe-ym6bw 2 месяца назад +2

      That right why would anyone want to go there

  • @chesstictacs3107
    @chesstictacs3107 9 месяцев назад +1144

    Killing a human being for a petty crime is absolutely outrageous. People make mistakes, especially young folks. I feel very sorry for the guy and his parents. What a tragic story.

    • @basilmanolakos4926
      @basilmanolakos4926 9 месяцев назад +99

      People make mistakes, granted. But making them in North Korea can lead to tragic and catastrophic situations. They demand the tourists to be stiff, don't touch anything unless you bought it, and be noncommittal.

    • @fatmaezzahraabderrazak1452
      @fatmaezzahraabderrazak1452 9 месяцев назад +43

      People should learn to behave , i totally respect kim for that

    • @richland1980
      @richland1980 9 месяцев назад +45

      The mistake was going to NK. I highly doubt the video was made before his arrest. In NK reality depends upon what they want it to be.

    • @Reinhardt7853
      @Reinhardt7853 8 месяцев назад +82

      ​@@fatmaezzahraabderrazak1452killing someone for a poster ? sure buddy

    • @fatmaezzahraabderrazak1452
      @fatmaezzahraabderrazak1452 8 месяцев назад +34

      @@Reinhardt7853 if it's a law not to touch it , why would u do it? Outsmarting?
      I wonder same why his life wasn't that important to him to risk it for a poster?

  • @Phalangx82
    @Phalangx82 3 года назад +701

    Imagine his desperation, a young guy alone in an isolated country with no news about the world or his parents, being held in captivity with crazy soldiers who want to torture him. Don’t go to North Korea, it’s not safe..

    • @dresdners54
      @dresdners54 3 года назад +38

      Why, when the state dept warned not to go there did his family think he was special? Why did they get off at the fifth floor. He was too young. Do what my parent's did, after graduation, sent me with a tour of Europe. I will never forget the awesome beauty and architecture l, paintings!!

    • @Phalangx82
      @Phalangx82 3 года назад +21

      @@dresdners54 I wonder the same, US gov advice it’s citizens to not go to some places in the Middle East, Africa and DPRK, still people go there for “curiosity”, sometimes it ends in a tragedy....

    • @blipblop3229
      @blipblop3229 3 года назад +33

      @DraupnirEcogang And after you've killed millions of innocent koreans, where should we nuke next Adolf?

    • @Phalangx82
      @Phalangx82 3 года назад +30

      @Wartime_Sartorialist Dont talk shit dude, innocent people live there and they have been brainwashed for decades, don’t incite violence and a genocide against genuine and innocent people.

    • @Celric_Death
      @Celric_Death 3 года назад +13

      @@blipblop3229 No he's totally right, we should just send a nuke towards NK, because you know I'm sure nothing bad could come from that. Like yeah obviously South Korea and China would immediately suffer from the fallout and China would respond the minute the ICBM is detected with a retaliation.
      Don't worry though that doesn't matter, this guy clearly knows better than us so let's just start WW3 for the luls.

  • @miguelsoliz772
    @miguelsoliz772 8 месяцев назад +10

    “Was it torture” absolutely

  • @camiloquijada6498
    @camiloquijada6498 3 дня назад +3

    Amazing story. It was a big risk going there. He never imagine the impact of being discovered when he had retired the poster of big brother. 😢

  • @tomripley5055
    @tomripley5055 2 года назад +2118

    You’d have a better chance of survival on the top of Everest.

    • @wildheartxxx135
      @wildheartxxx135 2 года назад +9

      True!

    • @kyouhiki272
      @kyouhiki272 2 года назад +21

      No nope man everest more dangerous i once in pyongyang yeah thats place a bit depressed and all but if you not do a significant thing you pratically alive

    • @wildheartxxx135
      @wildheartxxx135 2 года назад +28

      @@kyouhiki272really, what about Otto then,this young healthy man has been tortured till death in NK and sent back in vegetable state!!!May those who did that to him burn in hell forever!!!!!
      RIP Otto you are loved and remembered! 💔

    • @jessestewart169
      @jessestewart169 2 года назад +1

      Isn't that the truth.

    • @LunaticTheCat
      @LunaticTheCat 2 года назад +13

      @@kyouhiki272 Are you an American? Visiting North Korea is much more dangerous for Americans than it is for citizens of other countries.

  • @travisbest1677
    @travisbest1677 Год назад +2192

    For me the most haunting, disturbing, and heartbreaking part of this tragedy is that Otto started screaming as his family boarded the plane despite having just been sedated. As horribly damaged as his brain was he apparently was still in there somewhere in some horribly trapped form.

    • @ranjaschildt9966
      @ranjaschildt9966 Год назад +122

      We do not know why he was screaming. Maybe that was the only sound he could produce as he was almost unconsious.

    • @youngbloodnba
      @youngbloodnba Год назад +18

      They probably gave him some heavy medics

    • @eresh4084
      @eresh4084 Год назад +339

      He was blind and deaf when he returned, and his bottom teeth were rearranged. They tortured him, and the fact this wasn't pushed more on the media speaks volumes.

    • @michelleanna893
      @michelleanna893 Год назад +166

      @@eresh4084 this documentary states there is no physical proof his teeth were rearranged tho and they did tests

    • @dansmith2412
      @dansmith2412 Год назад +84

      @@AmberCraigPodcast he didn’t sedate him heavily, he explained that. It’s the right thing to do when a patient is agitated during a flight. Besides if he had of been sedated that heavily he would have died during the flight and not 6 days later. No sedation drugs are going to take 6 days to kill you. Ottos presentation seems to be consistent with the findings that he had suffered brain damage in NK.

  • @Jerry-nr6bd
    @Jerry-nr6bd 7 дней назад +2

    They physically tortured him, he went into a comma and waited more than a year until the scars went away

  • @kimlock9440
    @kimlock9440 7 месяцев назад +11

    They torture their own people. Some of the people that have escaped have horrific stories

    • @knightoflight8373
      @knightoflight8373 4 месяца назад +1

      You were right, but still, people want to visit there.

  • @soyuzdavillan721
    @soyuzdavillan721 3 года назад +1577

    I honestly think they did what they did to him so he wouldn't be able to tell about what he saw while in prison in North Korea. There was never a way they were letting him leave and be able to tell his story

    • @Memphis_ritz
      @Memphis_ritz 3 года назад +115

      And at the same time they can pretend they aren’t responsible for his death because he didn’t die on NK soil

    • @mobutter2879
      @mobutter2879 3 года назад +16

      Why did he steal the poster??

    • @tr3llo165
      @tr3llo165 3 года назад +48

      @@mobutter2879 that video evidence is terrible

    • @jelly6023
      @jelly6023 3 года назад +38

      @@mobutter2879 you really think that was actually him lmao

    • @theherbpuffer
      @theherbpuffer 3 года назад +7

      @@jelly6023 I'm sure you didn't think the moon landing happened either

  • @4WingedAngels
    @4WingedAngels 3 года назад +773

    “We take you to destinations your mother would rather you stay away from”- That should’ve been the first clue.

    • @creationworld8524
      @creationworld8524 3 года назад +20

      Always listen to parents because they have seen more generations than youngest..... parents will never guide you false ....it will always be best decision for kids...

    • @saucejohnson9862
      @saucejohnson9862 3 года назад +7

      Next is Yemen for a peaceful cultural enlightment!

    • @katerineella274
      @katerineella274 3 года назад +23

      Young people who grow up in the US often lead lives that only superficially acknowledge that other countries exist and are oblivious to dangers. He was stealing a poster to hang in his room. A childish act. And paid for it with his life. The world is not a playground.

    • @saucejohnson9862
      @saucejohnson9862 3 года назад +2

      @@katerineella274 That's quite a huge generalization. You don't see American's visiting the middle east like you do Europeans... Far more likely to die there than North Korea.

    • @user-zp9br7jk9k
      @user-zp9br7jk9k 3 года назад +4

      @@katerineella274 .. indeed... this young american man went to north korea, and broke their laws..
      not very bright in my opinion.

  • @mergatroidlou
    @mergatroidlou 6 месяцев назад +9

    WOW! I am disgusted at the adjectives that you attach to everything that is Republican. WHERE WAS OBAMA? WHAT DID HE DO? HE WAS FECKLESS and INPOTENT in fixing this.

  • @barbarapackard873
    @barbarapackard873 3 года назад +1610

    There are many ways to torture people. This young man was obviously emotionally disturbed at the press conference already.

    • @nolagirl2458
      @nolagirl2458 3 года назад +135

      He didn't speak using one contraction (wouldn't, couldn't) could easily tell it was written for him

    • @user-zd9fg8mh2r
      @user-zd9fg8mh2r 3 года назад +13

      TRUMP : You are Fake News

    • @vlonp
      @vlonp 3 года назад +23

      the prison camps could very well illicit that response from a guy who never though he'd be in that situation but it was very scripted overall

    • @BrokeNerfing
      @BrokeNerfing 3 года назад +57

      I think most likely it was a suicide attempt. He thought he was going to be in a labor camp for 15 years and In sure he read and watched many things about the labor camps by those who escaped NK.

    • @nolagirl2458
      @nolagirl2458 3 года назад +7

      @@BrokeNerfing But how could you brain damage yourself? I mean I wouldn't blame him, I sure as hell wouldn't want to be there

  • @NotimeforThis-fd4ye
    @NotimeforThis-fd4ye Год назад +2763

    I couldn’t imagine his fear, it’s so horrific. And his poor family, it’s just the worst thing you could see happen to your child.

    • @lianecornils6603
      @lianecornils6603 Год назад +45

      I agree. It is the worst thing I think a parent could see happen to their child.

    • @trishloughman5998
      @trishloughman5998 Год назад

      @@lianecornils6603 and then to be caught up in the lunacy of Trump. Everything was against ever finding the truth.

    • @QuantumMechanic_88
      @QuantumMechanic_88 Год назад +112

      Raise a child with some brains who respects the laws of other countries. Otto wasn't a child.

    • @dereksmall4311
      @dereksmall4311 Год назад +27

      @@lianecornils6603 awwwww maybe there child shouldnt of went into a restricted area

    • @muttley8818
      @muttley8818 Год назад +59

      @@dereksmall4311 He didn’t go into a restricted area. He ripped a propaganda poster off a wall in his hotel. He was accused of vandalism. North Korea considers even small crimes like that to be serious offences. I’ve been there, believe it or not. The country itself is gorgeous. The scenery is amazing. But you have to remember, it’s a foreign country with very strict laws. I’m assuming you follow the laws if you go to a foreign country on holiday. Same applies here - their laws are just much more harsh.

  • @Hedgehog4real
    @Hedgehog4real 7 месяцев назад +16

    watching this made me go through waves of very different, but equally depressing feelings. i felt horrified and sorry. then i was angry at stupidity and lack of foresight, then heartbroken. that story is incredible(

  • @cherielindemann9655
    @cherielindemann9655 7 месяцев назад +12

    IDK. For feet to have atrophy that badly and have no sign whatsoever of ANY muscle tone? I think the torture was more psychological, then when he went insane they drugged him or did SOMETHING that caused him to lose consciousness and once they realized he hadn't just gone to slee & that he wasn't breathing, they revived him and kept him on life support long enough to be use as a high profile bargaining chip knowing fully what they had done. I don't believe the doctor or the coroner either. Not one word that came out of their mouth seemed truthful once again because in that last clip, the level of atrophy in his feet alone tells me he had been in the same condition since he was sentenced.

  • @barbaradobner6050
    @barbaradobner6050 3 года назад +1417

    I believe not one second, that Kim Jong Un didn't know nothing about this young man.

    • @ellemontgomery1037
      @ellemontgomery1037 3 года назад +84

      I can’t believe the Obama administration didn’t do sqwat to get him released. Actually...yes, I can. Maybe if Obama had a spine, Otto could of been released before they comatose him.

    • @2okaycola
      @2okaycola 3 года назад +11

      Nobody cared until pdjt did

    • @shawntheone8827
      @shawntheone8827 3 года назад +2

      Yo yo Kim dun lie

    • @CHARLIEANDTHENUMBERS123
      @CHARLIEANDTHENUMBERS123 3 года назад +47

      @@ellemontgomery1037 uhm what about trump... both him and obama are in the wrong

    • @gigi-bk8cg
      @gigi-bk8cg 3 года назад +81

      @@ellemontgomery1037 when did this happen? i thought this happened when trump was president, so what would obama have to do with this?

  • @janekodel2464
    @janekodel2464 3 года назад +957

    He should never have gone to North Korea, PERIOD. Such a tragic ending, but unnecessary loss of a life.

    • @nuanuaimanhlennao8956
      @nuanuaimanhlennao8956 3 года назад +46

      "Destinations your mother would rather you stay away from". EVEN THEY WARN YOU!

    • @cocik
      @cocik 3 года назад +59

      Going to North Korea is safe. Stealing in North Korea is not. He should have bought the posters in the souvenir shops on the ground floor just like anyone else. And yes, I have been to the same hotel and I have received the same instructions not to go to the closed 5th floor.

    • @richardscathouse
      @richardscathouse 3 года назад +3

      Just dumb

    • @richardscathouse
      @richardscathouse 3 года назад +5

      @@cocik Amen

    • @someoneelse6934
      @someoneelse6934 3 года назад +71

      @@cocik "Going to North Korea is safe". Now THAT is funny. You have a strange perception of safety if you feel safe in a place that could take away your freedom and get away with killing you, whether you actually do commit a crime or if it served their "government's" purposes somehow.

  • @comet5862
    @comet5862 3 месяца назад +5

    Even after all these years, I'm still sad about this,
    Rest in peace Otto, I hope you can be happy in another world😢
    i pray for you

  • @nancygarrett0000
    @nancygarrett0000 5 месяцев назад +11

    lesson learned....when when you go to a foreign country do NOT do ANYTHING to get yourself into ANY kind of trouble....plain and simple. RIP Otto and may his family find peace. and Fu++ North Korea...i would NOT visit that place for a penny ticket!

  • @justiceneeded01
    @justiceneeded01 2 года назад +2333

    It felt like every person in this documentary knew more than what they were saying. As I seen another comment say, this raised more questions than answers.

    • @HandTheFull
      @HandTheFull 2 года назад +6

      frrrrr

    • @imakelovetoyourmommy5203
      @imakelovetoyourmommy5203 2 года назад +4

      Elaborate?

    • @Dboi_
      @Dboi_ 2 года назад +61

      @@imakelovetoyourmommy5203 they know something and they aren’t saying it

    • @thetruthchannel4634
      @thetruthchannel4634 2 года назад +34

      Yep, thanks for seeing beyond your nose. Be aware that N Korea is one of only three countries in the entire world that aren’t yet on the parasitic, massively powerful, murderous banking system. The other two are Iran & Cuba. And the US military is at odds with all three. Go figure. The worth of the USD is about to drop out of the basement

    • @cathyjackson2132
      @cathyjackson2132 2 года назад +1

      Yes

  • @lucinae8510
    @lucinae8510 3 года назад +655

    "Destinations your mother would rather you stay away from". *EVEN THEY WARN YOU!*

  • @fawn06
    @fawn06 5 месяцев назад +13

    It's tragic for parents to lose their child because it goes against the course of nature. But to lose a child the way they did, is beyond tragic.

  • @edwardwong654
    @edwardwong654 6 месяцев назад +7

    I can't believe we let them get away with this. It is outrageous. And then we allowed them to give us back Travis King.

  • @frbmp5100
    @frbmp5100 3 года назад +819

    North Koreans die escaping the country while Americans vacationing to North Korea.

    • @DiBaozi
      @DiBaozi 3 года назад +39

      There were other nationalities on the tour, too, not just Americans just so you know but I get your point. Freedom shouldn't be taken for granted

    • @drummaboi5879
      @drummaboi5879 3 года назад +9

      yea its gross AF

    • @joanserumola6070
      @joanserumola6070 3 года назад +5

      The irony..

    • @gildardobarrios3115
      @gildardobarrios3115 3 года назад +7

      Why going to North Korea when we have everything in the States?

    • @seacyren161
      @seacyren161 3 года назад +5

      Actually most of those people are from Russia and Amsterdam. Places in Europe.

  • @fireskycam9889
    @fireskycam9889 3 года назад +487

    Not a place anyone should go to as a tourist.

    • @richardv9648
      @richardv9648 3 года назад +30

      If you go then obey their laws. Frat boy stuff isn't always well tolerated by other cultures.

    • @ravenpark2784
      @ravenpark2784 3 года назад +13

      @Kobe Bean no he isn't usas spy
      U have any clue?

    • @sawsanmohammed1131
      @sawsanmohammed1131 3 года назад +3

      @Kobe Bean source?

    • @bobs8005
      @bobs8005 3 года назад +5

      Not a place anyone should go to.*

    • @fireskycam9889
      @fireskycam9889 3 года назад +3

      @Kobe Bean And what credible information do you have to support your statement that he was a spy.

  • @madreep
    @madreep 7 месяцев назад +72

    Why anyone would willingly travel to North Korea is beyond me. I obviously don't know if that was him in the video or not, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was. He definitely fit the profile of the type of person who would. Young guy, many would say was good looking, and affluent. Probably never in his life suffered a real consequence for his actions. His parents were ignorant for letting him go despite claiming that they weren't. I lost my 24 year old daughter a year ago and it's a pain that I wouldn't wish on another. I am very sorry about what happened to him. I wish it was nothing more than a crazy story that he could tell to his friends when he was a boring middle aged guy in the midwestern suburbs and lived a predictable life with a wife who wore too much makeup and the requisite 2.5 kids and a dog. The kind of guy who was dissatisfied with his life cause there was no excitement. But it wasn’t meant to be. I wasn't valedictorian of my class but even I know that North Korea is a place of suffering. A place where people risk their and their family's lives trying to escape. It's nor necessary to check the state department's website for a travel advisory before choosing to go. Not a damn thing has changed. His parents are mad at the wrong people.

    • @Peekaboo-Kitty
      @Peekaboo-Kitty 5 месяцев назад +5

      His father funded the trip!

    • @Gartenpalme1
      @Gartenpalme1 5 месяцев назад

      People are young and stupid ...it goes together. They same people that are traveling to Chernobyl and getting a radiation tour...dumb if you ask me but people do it.

    • @kkunitak
      @kkunitak 5 месяцев назад +4

      As someone who is pretty well traveled (45 countries), and now in his late 40s, I can say that I, once, thought about travelling to NK and didn't really think about how much risk I was really opening myself up to. I think as a traveller you get blinded to the potential risks of the decisions you make, all in the pursuit of new or seemingly forbidden experiences. I wouldn't blame my parents for poor parenting if I had chosen to go to NK, as it would have been purely my decision...

    • @poolmilethirty2859
      @poolmilethirty2859 4 месяца назад +5

      It wasn't just that he went to North Korea. He took it upon himself to wander off to a private floor. He should've stayed with his traveling group.

  • @Lm6991-
    @Lm6991- 5 месяцев назад +8

    Why did he go plain and simple !

  • @anispanicker
    @anispanicker 3 года назад +1538

    I know there's no hard evidence but if you think about it, if they had taken him prisoner, it means he had seen actual North Korea in many ways hidden from foreigners and if tortured and beaten up then he has even more devastating and truthful stories to tell back in the US. There's no way they would let a someone go back sane and healthy after that sort of exposure.

    • @tede6568
      @tede6568 3 года назад +70

      I think Otto may have tried to escape or may have stop listening to NK officials commands and he may have been beaten to a vegative state

    • @mixz9929
      @mixz9929 3 года назад +133

      I think they did some type of torture to him like waterboarding where it gave him brain damage and left no marks or bruises they said there was no evidence of assault so that or they gave him some type of drug that made him brain dead but there was no trace of it so something like waterboarding where it deprived him of oxygen to the brain causing him to be a vegetable

    • @stevebrigandi3488
      @stevebrigandi3488 3 года назад +36

      They fried his brain with their microwave weapon used against our embassy in Cuba.
      See no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil.

    • @kingterrence
      @kingterrence 3 года назад +7

      We have Satellites 🛰 that can see what they have going on right ?

    • @anthonyoleary6827
      @anthonyoleary6827 3 года назад +3

      He was working for Mossad, it had nothing to do

  • @sweettea3879
    @sweettea3879 3 года назад +1970

    The young man should've known better. Literally everyone knows the status of North Korea. Does his action justify his 15 prison sentence and death? Absolutely not. They cruelly and unfairly punished that man.

    • @aviliovanetti9481
      @aviliovanetti9481 3 года назад +42

      Stupidity has no end.......!

    • @johnratican3824
      @johnratican3824 3 года назад +110

      You believe the story about him taking down the poster? Oh yeah, the government of North Korea would never lie, cross my heart hope to die. LOL. Sorry, you are incredibly naïve if you believe anything the "Peoples Democratic Republic" of Korea says. Even the name of their country is a lie, for crying out loud.

    • @DeeRio9546
      @DeeRio9546 3 года назад +41

      He should have known better but trump and our government also didn't do shit to help him. Especially how much trump paraded them around like ya we will get him back but they never even tried

    • @abby6597
      @abby6597 3 года назад +33

      @I win You lose I was a cop that stopped his breathing not drugs🙂🙂

    • @abby6597
      @abby6597 3 года назад +5

      It*

  • @Arminius420
    @Arminius420 6 месяцев назад +7

    Why would he even go there in the first place.

    • @user-wn5vn9ct8o
      @user-wn5vn9ct8o 2 месяца назад

      Some of the videos I’ve seen from people who have traveled there make me think a lot of people do it almost because of the immense risk and danger involved. People enjoy going to places around the world that are knowingly dangerous as a thrill and many times don’t fully know the situations they are putting themselves in until it’s too late. I’ve seen videos from tourists that have gone there to work on visas and they compare it to like being in a human zoo, with the citizens there being the main exhibit. It’s truly bizarre. They also describe it as being exhausting because you’re completely on guard there and having to always be conscious of your actions and have to be aware you’re always being watched and monitored.

  • @Jus_Bored
    @Jus_Bored 8 месяцев назад +3

    Horrible to even think of his situation💔💔💔

  • @avania178
    @avania178 2 года назад +2819

    this poor family, no one should ever have to experience this type of trauma and pain. My heart goes out to them. Rip Otto

    • @I_007
      @I_007 2 года назад +82

      His fault for going there and stealing from their government

    • @tommyboy20
      @tommyboy20 2 года назад +58

      He was stupid. I don't feel sorry for him.

    • @lilyastor5980
      @lilyastor5980 2 года назад +87

      @Sex Pun in a normal country, stealing something small doesn’t lead to torture and years of imprisonment. He did not deserve that punishment

    • @shaynmalik4752
      @shaynmalik4752 2 года назад +49

      @@lilyastor5980 but north korea aint a normal country ,,,but ya poor lad

    • @broxxad
      @broxxad 2 года назад +32

      @@lilyastor5980 why is he in a country that is not normal in the first place? Lol didn't he know NK wasn't normal? Or is it that nobody told him?

  • @_djcraig_
    @_djcraig_ 3 года назад +129

    "Too many lies" "I was only the doctor" was quite chilling

    • @ruth..
      @ruth.. 3 года назад +4

      What does that really mean?

    • @Aizemiyo
      @Aizemiyo 3 года назад +6

      We know "they" fooled both sides.

  • @luisito6314
    @luisito6314 24 дня назад +2

    The thing is they really didn't need to officially torture him cause he was so soft that even normal bad things like jail were completely unthinkable especially how soft and easy he earlier life was

  • @Eli12344
    @Eli12344 23 часа назад

    I don't believe the doctor was transparent. He knows way more, he shared basically nothing.

  • @jamesr1703
    @jamesr1703 2 года назад +970

    The North Korean government's hate for America was taken out on this poor boy.

    • @dorkanderson4963
      @dorkanderson4963 2 года назад +68

      The "poor boy" is old enough to know stealing is wrong. Saw a couple Americans trashing the Seoul subway couple years ago. Warned them they gonna wnd up in Korean prison if they get caught.

    • @rastakouse4950
      @rastakouse4950 2 года назад +134

      @@dorkanderson4963 so you think its ok for him to get tortured and eventually die from it because he took a poster?!

    • @dorkanderson4963
      @dorkanderson4963 2 года назад +70

      @@rastakouse4950 Americans get murdered by their own police for much less crimes on a regular basis. What country do you live in?

    • @rosek7114
      @rosek7114 2 года назад +115

      @@dorkanderson4963 Are you family of Kim Jong-un by any chance? What the kid did was undoubtedly stupid, but he did NOT deserve to die for stealing a fucking poster. What the F is wrong with you?? Go seek some therapy.

    • @ronaldramos5541
      @ronaldramos5541 2 года назад +49

      @@rastakouse4950 he definitely didn’t deserve what happened for stealing. But he’s in the worst dictatorship in history. He should’ve known the consequences of what might happen. His own ignorance and innocence of the world killed him. That’s what happens growing up in the USA and not having an understanding of the world around you.

  • @loralieisa
    @loralieisa 3 года назад +589

    The slogan of the travel agency "We take you to destinations your mother would rather you stayed away from." said it all. Adolescence is not a time to go to a hostile nation. RIP Otto Warmbier.

    • @gogogadget1855
      @gogogadget1855 3 года назад +9

      Yeah, North Korea is not the place you want to go do stupid things, unfortunately 20 somethings are known for being stupid.

    • @PKMNFan4664
      @PKMNFan4664 3 года назад +12

      There is no time in your lifetime to go to North Korea...

    • @PKMNFan4664
      @PKMNFan4664 3 года назад +6

      @fvrrrfdv I agree that in the Donald Trump era, things were GREATLY mishandled with North Korea, first by using insane speech like "fire and fury" and then with Trump kissing Kim Jong-un's ass, but I remain optimistic things will revert to normal under Joe Biden.

    • @nickie7874
      @nickie7874 3 года назад +10

      @fvrrrfdv Then leave if that's how you feel. NK would be a nice place for you to go.

    • @gomer95
      @gomer95 3 года назад +2

      @@PKMNFan4664 Its only going to get worse. Very bad.

  • @itsma1
    @itsma1 7 месяцев назад +12

    Thank you for shedding the light on this story and there're hundreds more

  • @stellapan4346
    @stellapan4346 Месяц назад +2

    Should I say I distrust the doctor in the interview? He said there was no sign of torture on the boy and he was very well attended in the hospital. How could that be true? He is healthy and young. Why would he die in a few months if there was no torture and no hard labor forced on him? The doctor might be under some threat or bribes for saying that. Is there someone else who could prove he is telling the truth?

  • @mudderofgod7762
    @mudderofgod7762 3 года назад +1141

    It looks like he was drugged when he came out of court the day he was sentenced

    • @singingdaffodil9413
      @singingdaffodil9413 3 года назад +123

      Imagine being in North Korean custody and being told you are basically never getting out, I think he was probably in shock. Could have been drugged I suppose

    • @KhasAdun1990
      @KhasAdun1990 3 года назад +73

      @@singingdaffodil9413 Oh no, he was definitely in shock. I've been in that state before. Your muscles just don't want to hold you up anymore.

    • @cherchuhaikieu4328
      @cherchuhaikieu4328 3 года назад +54

      Not drug, that cost money. Probably torture and starving. It is sad and sickening. I hope he’s with Jesus in heaven now and nobody can ever hurt him again.

    • @sugarsore
      @sugarsore 3 года назад +3

      @@cherchuhaikieu4328 i agree.

    • @lolmina297
      @lolmina297 3 года назад +8

      @Otto Rocket ...

  • @CleoPhoenixRT
    @CleoPhoenixRT 3 года назад +539

    I always thought he was brutally beaten into a coma and never woke up or responded. Their prison camps are terrifying. This challenged a lot. Still would never set foot in that place.

    • @1karenparrish
      @1karenparrish 3 года назад +13

      Dont think so. would gave shown up on a medical exam, even after time...

    • @CleoPhoenixRT
      @CleoPhoenixRT 3 года назад +4

      @@1karenparrish yeah it never showed up later according to this doc

    • @mironRu79
      @mironRu79 3 года назад +8

      Keep your ass in western so called democracy....

    • @beluwuga2229
      @beluwuga2229 3 года назад +9

      @@CleoPhoenixRT they were no skin marks or anything broken, it is just weird

    • @CleoPhoenixRT
      @CleoPhoenixRT 3 года назад +2

      @@beluwuga2229 Right? A head scratcher for sure.

  • @lyv8627
    @lyv8627 7 месяцев назад +8

    Absolutely devastating and unequivocally unnecessary demise of Otto. He was just thinking of taking a souvenir and it ended his life as he knew it. 😢 Deepest condolences and sympathy to the Warmbiers and those that knew and loved him. Rest in peace Otto.

  • @MarshaEmpress12
    @MarshaEmpress12 7 месяцев назад +3

    This is truly heartbreaking 😢 Gone too soon😢😢😢

  • @kera9389
    @kera9389 3 года назад +898

    If my kids said “hey mom I’m gonna visit North Korea” I would CHAIN THEM TO THEIR BEDS . Such a sad story

    • @adamrest7428
      @adamrest7428 3 года назад +48

      Yea, I'd do pretty much the same if my kids wanted to go to the US. I hear cops murder over 1000 people there every year. Shoot them or choke them to death over pointless things like sleeping in their cars or homes or even just pulling up their pants. Such a sad country.

    • @YAHMORTIZ
      @YAHMORTIZ 3 года назад +3

      same as me, their act is not human😞

    • @theshermantanker7043
      @theshermantanker7043 3 года назад +1

      You'd be doing the right thing, cruel as it may sound

    • @simonhollad5511
      @simonhollad5511 3 года назад +8

      Idiot. You can safely travel to NK and come back if you don't commit any crime...

    • @humanchannel7825
      @humanchannel7825 3 года назад +2

      @@fabibautistasolis9268 Um no. You shouldn’t let them go to a totalitarian country.

  • @RDFContent
    @RDFContent 3 года назад +410

    N.Korea made sure he would never talk again & tell the world how he was tortured, they knew exactly what they were doing when they did this.

    • @rome54545
      @rome54545 3 года назад +51

      I don’t get why he went to an unauthorized floor of the hotel and touched anything. In a communist country. Especially fucking North Korea. How stupid do you have to be.

    • @sheilagoos645
      @sheilagoos645 3 года назад +7

      @Simran Talreja I've always had the feeling that perhaps he tried to hang himself and didn't recover. I'm sure he was seriously depressed and perhaps had no hope.

    • @CB-zt6qs
      @CB-zt6qs 3 года назад +5

      Did you not watch this video? They said they didn't find any evidence of torture. This is the kind of thought pattern that starts wars. Like, weapons of mass destruction... never found any.

    • @mudd4284
      @mudd4284 3 года назад +1

      @Simran Talreja what is your definition of torture?

    • @DAVIS__
      @DAVIS__ 3 года назад

      Did you watch the whole video stupid there was no evidence or
      OF torture. Your so stupid

  • @mirandamcguire810
    @mirandamcguire810 День назад

    And they really tried to say they didn't hurt him. They tortured him to death.

  • @nyChannel09
    @nyChannel09 8 месяцев назад +3

    12:30 what is that quote??
    "It takes a thousand hacks to bring down a tree"

  • @truckingwithtobee
    @truckingwithtobee 3 года назад +534

    N. Korea made sure he wasn’t going to talk again. Yes, it’s awful. What happened to him. But he was asking for it. You can’t even so much as take a picture of those giant statues unless you frame it just right. You have to follow the rules when you go there. If you choose to put your life on the line and be stupid and that’s the place to be. My son is in the military and was stationed in South Korea. He did a tour of the border. They had to literally dress up in suits. You could not even take a picture. You could not curse. If you said anything derogatory about North Korea you would be either put in prison or shot on the spot, but the rules were made abundantly clear. My son said it was a crazy experience. But he was too afraid to go back in there again. That’s how bad it is there an Otto knew that.

    • @janvirachas1708
      @janvirachas1708 3 года назад +8

      true👌

    • @tweeboschlaan5115
      @tweeboschlaan5115 3 года назад +16

      Damn savages

    • @BEAUTYnIQ
      @BEAUTYnIQ 3 года назад +1

      @I miss my cat then what happened to him .. he had cerebral hemorrhage here .. or what/how .. ?

    • @norman7527
      @norman7527 3 года назад +3

      Well they must of learnt this strategy from the British, American establishment

    • @lynnetmb4706
      @lynnetmb4706 3 года назад +15

      @I miss my cat
      IF YOU CALL BLINKING YOUR EYES, TEARING UP, SQUEEZING HANDS...
      He was blind, and unable to communicate normally. He was still under duress, but he could still tell his parents were there bc he could hear them.
      That’s what they meant by responsive.

  • @SC-lt4vm
    @SC-lt4vm 2 года назад +1179

    My mother suffered brain damage when she got out of prison in China. But she came out of prison looking like a normal, healthy person, and it was only after living with her for a long time that you realized she may have been forced to take drugs that caused mental confusion

    • @FreedomofSpeech865
      @FreedomofSpeech865 2 года назад +90

      Wow! I am so sorry your mom had to go through that

    • @MultiSciGeek
      @MultiSciGeek 2 года назад +49

      That's kinda scary

    • @inuchan74
      @inuchan74 2 года назад +34

      I am so sorry your mother and family had to go through that

    • @RabbitConfirmed
      @RabbitConfirmed 2 года назад +11

      :/.. Im sorry for you.. I hope your mother is ok!

    • @Dancemom-hw2jt
      @Dancemom-hw2jt 2 года назад +9

      That’s terrible. I’m so sorry that happened to her.

  • @Wilko11
    @Wilko11 5 дней назад

    15 years hard labour in prison for removing a poster.

  • @julieaucoin9980
    @julieaucoin9980 3 года назад +398

    Why in the world would anyone want to go to North Korea?

    • @Die-sel13136
      @Die-sel13136 3 года назад +37

      Curiosity!!

    • @jagdpanther2224
      @jagdpanther2224 3 года назад +3

      Girls! He was looking for lust in that country!

    • @harbinkiwi
      @harbinkiwi 3 года назад +21

      Ummm... I did! I travelled to North Korea in 2017, I even made a video about it, it’s on my channel. Why? Because I like to judge a country based on my own experiences, not on what the media tell me!

    • @iona5439
      @iona5439 3 года назад +4

      @@harbinkiwi How did it go?

    • @smbynum12
      @smbynum12 3 года назад +40

      @@harbinkiwi you’re completely brain dead to think that North Korea is anything better than what the media tell you. Disgusting.

  • @HISANY83
    @HISANY83 3 года назад +388

    The press clips scared the shit out of me for some reason, probably because the confessions seemed so contrived and coerced. Haunting shit.

    • @EffortlessEthan
      @EffortlessEthan 3 года назад +8

      Honestly, that should be proof enough of torture.

    • @andrewherrera7735
      @andrewherrera7735 3 года назад +6

      Where are people who say they learned their lesson from the nazis. When someone does a documentary on the camps 30+ years from now, they are going to say the same emotional bullshit about being humane. Remember when Oprah went to visit the nazi camps with a survivor, why hasn't her rich ass tried to do something about north korean camps, instead she is just a phony.

    • @Pinksugarelephant
      @Pinksugarelephant 3 года назад +6

      @@EffortlessEthan I can't imagine seeing my child this distressed. I feel so bad for his parents. I was an absolute idiot when I was his age. 21 year old make stupid decisions all the time. Poor man.

    • @chidinmaugoji5195
      @chidinmaugoji5195 3 года назад

      Weird ass people