A wrongful death lawsuit filed this year by the parents of American college student Otto Warmbier against the North Korean government is now seeking more than $1 billion.
Fred and Cindy Warmbier, of Wyoming, Ohio, filed the suit in a federal court in Washington last April. North Korean authorities arrested their son in January 2016 for stealing a propaganda poster, and he was sentenced to 15 years in prison. He died last year after he was released from North Korea in a coma after 17 months of being tortured in captivity at a labor camp.
A motion filed in October in the lawsuit seeks $1.05 billion in punitive damages and about $46 million for the family’s suffering, the Cincinnati Enquirer first reported.
North Korea has repeatedly denied the accusations that it tortured Warmbier, 22.
Read more at NBC News.
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