A wrongful death lawsuit filed this year by the parents of U.S. college student Otto Warmbier against North Korea is now seeking more than $1 billion from the government the Warmbiers say tortured and killed their son.
Fred and Cindy Warmbier, of suburban Cincinnati, sued in April in federal court in Washington. North Korean authorities arrested their son in January 2016 for stealing a propaganda poster. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
The 22-year-old died in 2017, days after he was repatriated to the U.S. with severe brain damage.
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports a motion filed in October in the lawsuit seeks $1.05 billion in punitive damages and about $46 million for the family's suffering.
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Fred and Cindy Warmbier have filed the lawsuit against the North Korean state after their son's death last year
American student Otto Warmbier speaks to reporters in Pyongyang on February 2016 - a year before his death
North Korea has repeatedly denied the accusations that it tortured Warmbier.
Warmbier's parents made emphatic statements in court on Wednesday after the family began their legal action against the communist state in April.
In April Otto's mother, Cindy Warmbier said 'I'm going to stand up to evil when I see it. There is nothing more evil than North Korea.'
Cindy repeated that sentiment at the court house in Washington DC on Wednesday, saying: 'We are not going to be the victims. I want them to feel victimized,' CNN reported.
His father Fred said: 'We're here because we don't fear North Korea anymore. They're cowards.
Fred Warmbier and Cindy Warmbier look on as the casket of their son, Otto during his funeral in June last year
'They've done the worst they could do. This is the work of a coward.'
He said the regime had held them 'hostage,' WENY reported, as they were unable to denounce the North Koreans for fear Otto would not be returned while he was in custody.
Fred also spoke of the pain he felt when he was reunited with his son who was comatose and unable to communicate with him.
Otto's mother and father along with his two siblings Greta and Austin demanded 'closure' and 'justice' for their son from Kim Jong Un's regime.
Otto, from Cincinnati, Ohio, was arrested while waiting to depart Pyongyang airport after the 22-year-old visited as a student in January 2016.
Warmbier, center, being escorted at the Supreme Court in Pyongyang, North Korea where the 21-year-old University of Virginia student, from Wyoming, Ohio, was sentenced to 15 years in prison with hard labor
His upsetting confession was broadcast to the world in March of that year in which he admitted to the theft of a propaganda poster from a hotel in the North Korean capital.
His swift trial ended in a conviction and he was sentence to 15 years hard labor.
In June 2017, the Trump Administration secured the release of Otto but he was repatriated in a coma, with North Korean authorities claiming he was suffering from a rare illness called botulism.
American medical experts in Cincinnati could find no evidence of botulism on his return and he was taken off life support shortly afterwards on June 19.
The family are seeking damages for Otto's wrongful death, emotional distress and torture which they believe he was subjected to by the North Korean government.
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