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    American Student Freed By North Korea Arrives Home

    Otto Warmbier is said to have been in a coma since sometime after his sentencing in North Korea in March 2016. The American student was sentenced to a 15-year prison term after his arrest.
    by Mark Katkov Jun 14, 2017 1 minute
    Otto Warmbier, a 22-year-old University of Virginia undergraduate who was imprisoned in North Korea in January 2016, is transferred by medical personnel from a transport aircraft to an ambulance at Cincinnati Municipal Lunken Airport Tuesday night. / John Minchillo / Shutterstock.com

    An American college student who has been in North Korean custody for a year-and-a-half arrived in Cincinnati Tuesday night on a medical evacuation flight.

    Otto Warmbier, 22, is

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