Taking selfies, eating hot pot, drinking beer, and playing with friends were Warmbier's last moments of freedom before being captured by North Korea.
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| American student Otto Warmbier traveled to North Korea for 4 days and 3 nights with a group of Western tourists in late 2015. Those who traveled with Otto Warmbier have shared photos with the American student during his last days of freedom in the country, according to Mirror. |
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| Warmbier (4th from left), 22 years old, drinks beer, laughs, and takes souvenir photos with friends around a banquet table in the North Korean capital. |
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| Warmbier takes a selfie with a female friend in the tour group. |
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| American students take a souvenir photo with three women wearing traditional Korean costumes on a snowy day in Pyongyang. |
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| Warmbier plays a snowball fight in Kim Il Sung Square. He decided to visit North Korea before going to study at a school in Hong Kong in January 2016. |
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| On New Year's Eve 2016, Warmbier and his friends took a photo on a bus moving to their next destination. |
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| Warmbier and his friends in front of statues of North Korean leaders Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il. |
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| Warmbier had hot pot with friends. |
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| Warmbier and a fellow traveler. |
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| The tour was offered by Young Pioneer Tours, a travel agency in China that advertises itself as “offering affordable tours to places your mother would rather you stay away from.” |
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| Warmbier's days of freedom and happiness in North Korea came to an abrupt end when he was accused of stealing a propaganda banner from his hotel. He was arrested while passing through the exit checkpoint at Pyongyang International Airport on January 2, 2016. Two months later, Warmbier was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for stealing the banner as a "trophy" for an American church, with the "collusion of the US government" to "harm the motivation and work ethic of the North Korean people." |
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| Warmbier was returned to the US on June 13 after 17 months of detention in North Korea in a coma and with severe neurological damage. He died a week later. His family said Warmbier had been "horribly mistreated". Photo: AP |
According to VNE
