North Korea sanctioned by U.S. court in death of American student Otto Warmbier
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A Washington, D.C. judge previously awarded over $500 million in damages to the Warmbier family, but North Korea has not complied and has denied any wrongdoing in the case.
His parents sued North Korea over the death, with a judge in 2018 initially ruling that the hermit kingdom was liable for $501million in damages. District of Columbia Judge Beryl A. Howell deemed the punishment "appropriate" to "deter North Korea" for "torture, hostage-taking and extrajudicial killing," but North Korea ignored the order.
But last week the Northern District Court of New York approved a seizure of funds from the country’s Korea Kwangson Banking Corp. (KKBC) in an "unopposed motion" after both North Korea and the bank failed to respond to court orders. Judge Lawrence Kahn ordered New York’s Office of the State Comptroller to turn over funds seized from the bank to Warmbier’s estate "on a final basis," The Washington Post reported.
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