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| Otto Warmbier: North Korea releases jailed US student | |
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| North Korea has released jailed US student Otto Warmbier, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says. | |
| Mr Warmbier, 22, was sentenced in March 2016 to 15 years hard labour for attempting to steal a propaganda sign from a hotel. | |
| Mr Tillerson said Mr Warmbier is on his way back to the US to be reunited with his family. | |
| It is not clear if his release is linked to the arrival of US basketball star Dennis Rodman in North Korea. | |
| Mr Rodman is a friend of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, and travelled to the country in 2013 and 2014. | Mr Rodman is a friend of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, and travelled to the country in 2013 and 2014. |
| He said upon his arrival that he was in the country as a private citizen, and "my purpose is to actually see if I can keep bringing sports to North Korea". | |
| Three other US citizens remain in custody in North Korea. They are 62-year-old Kim Dong-chul, a Korean-American missionary; Korean-American professor Kim Sang-duk (or Tony Kim); and Kim Hak-song, who worked at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST). |