SEOUL — North Korea responded for the first time Friday to U.S. accusations that it had fatally brutalized Otto Warmbier, the captive college student, asserting he was given medical treatment and treated with respect even though he was a “criminal of the enemy state.” U.S. doctors who examined him after his return home reported extensive brain damage but could not explain what caused the injury. “Although we had no reason at all to show mercy to such a criminal of the enemy state, we provided him with medical treatment and care with all sincerity on a humanitarian basis until his return to the U.S., considering that his health got worse,” said the statement by theofficial Korean Central News Agency. [...] the spokesman, whom state news did not identify, said that American doctors who flew to Pyongyang to evacuate Warmbier recognized that the North had “provided him with medical treatment and brought him back alive whose heart was nearly stopped.” According to his family’s wishes, no autopsy was performed.

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