North Korea says it's 'biggest 犠牲者' in US student's death
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea on Friday called itself the "biggest 犠牲者" in the death of an American student who was 拘留するd for more than a year and died days after 存在 解放（する）d in a 昏睡.
The North's 公式の／役人 Korean Central News 機関 否定するd that North Korea cruelly 扱う／治療するd or 拷問d Otto Warmbier and （刑事）被告 the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs and South Korea of a smear （選挙などの）運動をする that 侮辱d what it called its "人道的な" 治療 of him.
The comments published by KCNA were North Korea's first reaction to Otto Warmbier's death in a U.S. hospital Monday after it 解放（する）d him for what it called 人道的な 推論する／理由s.
Fred and Cindy War mbier watch as their son Otto, is placed in a 霊柩車 after his funeral, Thursday, June 22, 2017, in Wyoming, Ohio. Otto Warmbier, a 22-year-old University of Virginia student who was 宣告，判決d in March 2016 to 15 years in 刑務所，拘置所 with hard labor in North Korea, died this week, days after returning to the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs. (AP Photo/Bryan Woolston)
Doctors at the hospital said Warmbier had 苦しむd a 厳しい neurological 傷害 from an unknown 原因（となる）. 親族s say they were told the 22-year-old University of Virginia student had been in a 昏睡 since すぐに after he was 宣告，判決d to 15 years of hard labor in North Korea in March 2016.
His family and others have 非難するd North Korea for his 条件.
Warmbier was （刑事）被告 of stealing a 宣伝 poster. Through 声明s on KCNA, North Korea said it dealt with him によれば its 国内の 法律s and international 基準s.
"Although we had no 推論する／理由 at all to show mercy to such a 犯罪の of the enemy 明言する／公表する, we 供給するd him with 医療の 治療s and care with all 誠実 on 人道的な basis until his return to the U.S., considering that his health got worse," the 機関 引用するd an 身元不明の Foreign 省 広報担当者 as 説.
The 広報担当者 said "groundless" 憶測 of 拷問 and beatings could be 反駁するd by American doctors who （機の）カム to North Korea at the time of Warmbier's 本国送還 and "認めるd that his health 指示する人（物）s like pulse, 気温, respiration and the examination result of the heart and 肺 were all normal." The 報告（する）／憶測 did not について言及する Warmbier's neurological status.
"The fact that Warmbier died suddenly in いっそう少なく than a week just after his return to the U.S. in his normal 明言する／公表する of health 指示する人（物）s is a mystery to us 同様に," the 広報担当者 said.
"To make it （疑いを）晴らす, we are the biggest 犠牲者 of this 出来事/事件 and there would be no more foolish judgment than to think we do not know how to calculate 伸び（る）s and losses," he said.
"The smear （選挙などの）運動をする against (North Korea) 行う／開催する／段階d i n the U.S. 強要するs us to make 会社／堅い 決意 that humanitarianism and benevolence for the enemy are a タブー and we should その上の sharpen the blade of 法律," the 広報担当者 追加するd.
A separate KCNA article published hours earlier 非難するd South Korea for using Warmbier's 事例／患者 to 捜し出す the 解放（する） of other 抑留者s, 含むing six South Korean 国民s. South Korean 大統領 Moon Jae-in said in an interview with CBS television earlier this week that it was （疑いを）晴らす North Korea 耐えるs a 激しい 責任／義務 for Warmbier's death.
The article said South Korea was （名声などを）汚すing North Korea's image with "slanderous talk about cruel 治療 and 拷問."
It 需要・要求するd that South Korea return 12 restaurant 労働者s who defected to the South last year. South Korea said the women defected on their own, while North Korea （人命などを）奪う，主張するd they were deceived and 誘拐するd to the South.
The 部隊d 明言する／公表するs, South Korea and others often 告発する／非難する North Korea of using foreign 抑留者s to ひったくる 外交の 譲歩s. Three Americans remain in 保護／拘留 in the North.
