On April 25, 2019, the Washington Post sparked another international uproar by claiming that North Korea had issued a $2 million bill for North Korea when Trump sent people to North Korea in 2017 to secure the release of American prisoner Warmbier.
For many Americans, "Warmbier" is a sad name, and it's hard to imagine that after just 17 months of North Korean detention, he went from normal to vegetative, and then died a week after returning home at the age of 22.
After the encounter was made public, in the eyes of many people, in addition to being pitiful, Warmbier was an American guy who died strangely because of his "cheap hand", but every time he mentioned his experience, people still wondered, what did he experience in North Korea?
If this question is extended, there is a lot of mystery behind each of these small problems, as to why Warmbier went to North Korea, why he was detained by North Korea, and what happened to him during his detention.
I can't help but think of the famous words of the German poet Nietzsche, "If you stare into the abyss for too long, the abyss will be stared back", if you compare the North Korean party to the abyss that Warmbiel once stared at, in the end, he was not only stared at by the abyss but also completely swallowed, and all kinds of mysteries can be called realistic version of thriller blockbusters.
It all started with a tour group advertisement circulating at the University of Virginia in the winter of 2015, "We're going to take you where your mom doesn't want you to go", and the outrageous slogan appealed to Otto Warmbier, who had just turned 19, and the tour group was going to North Korea.
At that time, the relationship between the United States and North Korea was tense and hostile, combined with the extremely closed national conditions and cultural environment of North Korea, it was the wisest choice for civilians in other countries to stay away.
On December 29, everyone was extremely excited to set foot on the territory of North Korea, and on the evening of the 31st, everyone stayed at the famous Giethoorn Hotel in North Korea.
It turns out that although this hotel is a well-known check-in place for North Korea to entertain international tourists, the 5th floor of the hotel is never open to the public and strictly forbids tourists to enter it.
Judging from this speculation, Warmbier's tour group was used as a surveillance sample of the agents' daily training when they checked in, and their every move was naturally under surveillance, even after he was banned from entering the 5th floor, and naturally they were also secretly monitored by these mysterious agents.
What is speechless is that when he entered the fifth floor to find out, Warmbier also "cheaply" tore down a political propaganda slogan hanging on the wall of the passage, because the banner was too large to take away, and he hung it back in its place, even so, this move is already heinous in the eyes of politically supremacist North Koreans.
On January 2, 2016, he was forcibly taken away by airport security personnel as he was about to embark on his return flight, and was formally arrested shortly after for "engaging in hostile anti-DPRK activities."
On February 29, at a press conference held by North Korean officials, the decadent Warmbier finally appeared and admitted that he had been on a mission in North Korea at the instigation of an American church with close ties to American intelligence agencies, and that his illegal operation in North Korea was extremely stupid in order to dampen the fighting spirit of the North Korean people.
At the end of his speech, his bowed confession and apology shocked the United States and other international countries, and a 21-year-old American college student was sentenced to 15 years of re-education through labor by the North Korean Supreme Court for "conspiracy to subvert the state" just because he moved a banner.
It was not until January 2017 when Trump took office and relations between the United States and North Korea improved, that the imprisoned young American was released early under the coordination of the two countries.
On June 13, 2017, Warmbier finally made his late return journey, but by this time he was already a cripple lying on a stretcher, unable to speak, and with a gastric tube, and after being rushed to a medical center for treatment, he was officially diagnosed in a vegetative state.
What is even more unexpected is that on June 19, his parents announced the death of their son, and the matter is far from over.
On the one hand, Warmbier's parents claimed that his oral teeth appeared to have been rearranged, and on the other hand, the coroner said that the body underwent CT and other imaging examinations and found that the brain damage on the body was severe, related to hypoxic encephalopathy, but there was no evidence of abuse before the deceased's death.
Because Mr. Warmbier's parents did not agree to the autopsy, the coroner could not provide further results from the autopsy, and North Korea gave a series of explanations, claiming that the convict had been infected with Botox while serving his sentence, and that he had been in a coma for 17 months after taking sleeping pills, and that he had been released early for humanitarian reasons.
At the same time, Warmbier's parents were naturally even more angry at the sky-high $2 million bill, and their claim against North Korea for more than $500 million was upheld by a U.S. court.
Ultimately, mysteries lead to one of the most important directions: how did Mr. Warmbier, who had never seemed to be abused, suffer such severe brain damage?
So far, there is more speculation that he was subjected to some kind of special torture in a North Korean prison, and can even completely destroy a person without leaving a trace.
Although this speculation has not been confirmed so far, it is indeed an indisputable fact that this American guy died strangely because of his "cheap hands", and in addition, judging from the international environment at the time, he was more like a political victim sent to his door.