Otto Warmbier has extensive brain damage, doctor says
Otto Warmbier after North Korea: What's next?
CINCINNATI – An American college student imprisoned by North Korea has extensive brain damage and is unresponsive to his surroundings, the doctors treating him said Thursday.
A medical team from the University of Cincinnati Medical Center described Otto Warmbier's condition as a "state of unresponsive wakefulness" and did not say -- at the request of his family -- whether the 22-year-old will recover. -- More...
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