New York City's message to Kim Jong Un honoring Otto Warmbier

The street where the North Korean regime's mission to the United Nations is located could soon be named "Otto Warmbier Way," after the 22-year-old American college student who was brutally tortured and sent home to die by Kim's regime in 2017.

"We are a symbol of human rights to the whole world and we have confronted, in this city, dictators and tyrants historically," New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said. "This is a place that has really led the international effort against oppression." The mayor told Fox News at a City Hall news conference that he "absolutely" supports naming the street after Warmbier. Warmbier planned to move to New York City in the summer of 2016 and work in a paid internship with the financial firm Millstein & Co. He was set to live in Manhattan after he graduated from the University of Virginia. Instead, he was arrested on false charges as he was about to leave North Korea with his fellow students who were on a foreign study tour of the country. During his nearly 18 months of imprisonment, Warmbier was tortured and eventually sent home to Cincinnati suffering from severe brain damage and unable to see or hear. He died on June 19, 2017, just days after arriving home.