SEOUL: North Korea on Friday accused the US of waging a “smear campaign” over the death of a student who was sent back home in a coma, denying he was tortured or abused, reports AFP.
President Donald Trump has slammed the treatment of 22-year-old American Otto Warmbier, who spent more than a year in detention in the secretive state, as “a total disgrace”.
“The smear campaign against (North Korea) staged in the US compels us to make firm determination that... we should further sharpen the blade of law”, the foreign ministry spokesman said according to state media.
“The US should ponder over the consequences to be entailed from its reckless and rash act,” he said in an apparent warning over the fate of three other US citizens currently being held in the country.