Otto Frederick Warmbier

The parents of an American university student tortured and left in a coma in North Korea strongly rebuked President Donald Trump Friday for accepting Kim Jong Un's claim that he did not know about the case.

North Korea has released CCTV images showing American student Otto Warmbier removing a political banner from a wall in a hotel -- a "crime" that saw him sentenced to 15 years hard labour.

North Korea has detained a US university student, the third western citizen known to be held in the isolated state, for committing a "hostile act" and wanting to "destroy the country's unity", it said on Friday.

North Korea said today it had detained a US university student for committing a "hostile act" and wanting to "destroy the country's unity", the third western citizen known to be held in the isolated state.

The parents of an American university student tortured and left in a coma in North Korea strongly rebuked President Donald Trump Friday for accepting Kim Jong Un's claim that he did not know about the case.

North Korea has released CCTV images showing American student Otto Warmbier removing a political banner from a wall in a hotel -- a "crime" that saw him sentenced to 15 years hard labour.

North Korea has detained a US university student, the third western citizen known to be held in the isolated state, for committing a "hostile act" and wanting to "destroy the country's unity", it said on Friday.

North Korea said today it had detained a US university student for committing a "hostile act" and wanting to "destroy the country's unity", the third western citizen known to be held in the isolated state.