Voice of America
07 Jul 2019, 05:05 GMT+10
NEW YORK - The parents of Otto Warmbier have filed a claim for a seized North Korean cargo ship in a bid to collect a multimillion-dollar judgment in the American college student's death.
Attorneys for the Warmbiers said in a court filing Wednesday they have a right to the assets after North Korea failed to respond to their wrongful-death claim.
The Warmbiers say their son was tortured after being convicted of trying to steal a propaganda poster and imprisoned for months.
He died days after being returned to the U.S. in a vegetative state in 2017. A U.S. judge has ordered North Korea to pay more than $500 million in the Warmbiers' wrongful-death suit.
North Korea has denied mistreating Warmbier.
The U.S. seized the cargo ship in May because it was carrying coal in violation of U.N. sanctions.
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