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By Ryan Pickrell
North Korea has released an imprisoned American university student, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson revealed Tuesday.
Otto Frederick Warmbier, a University of Virginia undergraduate, was arrested last January while visiting North Korea as a tourist. He was detained for stealing a propaganda poster from a hotel and sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for his anti-state activities.
BREAKING: North Korea releases jailed US university student Otto Warmbier, Secretary of State Tillerson says.
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 13, 2017
North Korea is still holding three other U.S. citizens in captivity — Kim Dong Chul, Kim Sang Duk, and Kim Hak-song. The Department of State has a travel warning for North Korea which instructs Americans to avoid travel to the country, which has a history of arbitrarily detaining U.S. citizens.
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