So, the medical exam doesn’t support the rhetoric. Something happened and there is no proof. So some will use the ambiguity to serve their cause. Yet another example of the difference between information and knowledge.
When North Korea arrested and later sentenced the US national Otto Warmbier over his attempted theft of real property belong to the North Korean government, there was surprisingly little media attention.
It is widely thought that on his recent visit to Pyongyang, former professional basketball star and self-described friend of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Dennis Rodman helped to secure an early release of Warmbier, earlier this year.
It was at this time that it became clear that Warmbier’s health had deteriorated and that the US citizen was comatose. He died in a US hospital shortly after being flown out of North Korea.
North Korea has insisted that Warmbier was neither beaten, tortured nor malnourished and that DPRK media teams assisted Warmbier as his health deteriorated.
A recent coroner’s report conducted by Dr. Lakshmi Sammarco in the United States, concluded that there were no signs that Warmbier was beaten, tortured, suffered head trauma or was poisoned. These were various theories which circulated in US mainstream media when it became known that Wambier had lost consciousness while in prison. Read more here.