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The Independent UK
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UNBELIEVABLE: Otto warmbier s parents get 240k seized from north korea - The Untold Story

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The parents of Otto Warmbier a U.S. student who died after being taken hostage by North Korea and released by the country in a coma in 2017, should receive $240,300 seized from a North Korean bank account, a federal judge ruled last week.

The amount would be a partial payment toward the more than $501 million Fred and Cindy Warmbier of Wyoming Ohio were awarded in 2018 by a federal judge in Washington, D.C.

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