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American student released from N. Korea prison arrives in US

WASHINGTON, June 14, (APP/AFP) – An American student
who fell into a coma while imprisoned in a North Korean labor camp returned to the United States late Tuesday after Pyongyang allowed him to be flown home, US media reported.
A military airplane carrying Otto Warmbier landed in his hometown
Cincinnati, Ohio, shortly before 10:20 pm (0220 GMT Wednesday), CBS News
reported.
The release of Warmbier, 18 months into a 15-year sentence, came as
US President Donald Trump invited South Korea’s new leader Moon Jae-In to Washington for talks on the escalating standoff over the North’s nuclear program.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said earlier in the day that his agency had “secured” the 22-year-old’s release in talks with North Korea and is pushing for three more Americans to be freed. It was not immediately clear if he had made any concessions.