North Korea denies US student Otto Warmbier was tortured

Pyongyang spokesman says student who was sent to US in coma was kept ‘under humanitarian conditions’ in prisonNorth Korea has accused the US of conducting a smear campaign against the regime over Otto Warmbier, the American student who was sent home in a coma after 17 months in prison.The 22-year-old, who died on 19 June – just over a week after being flown home to Ohio, had spent a year suffering from a severe brain injury that North Korean doctors claimed had been caused by a