BEIJING Chicago Cubs Jersey , June 14 (Xinhua) -- American college student Otto Frederick Warmbier has been released by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) after more than a year of imprisonment, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Tuesday.
The plane carrying Otto Warmbier has landed in Cincinnati, Ohio, local media reported later the same day.
The 22-year-old student from the University of Virginia has been in a state of coma for more than a year after contracting botulism soon after he was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in a trial by the DPRK supreme court on March 16, 2016 Mookie Betts Jersey , according to U.S. local media.
THREE U.S. CITIZENS REMAIN DETAINED IN DPRK
Warmbier was arrested and detained by the DPRK authorities at Pyongyang International Airport on his way back home in early January of 2016 after he attempted to take a political slogan from a staff-only area in a hotel where he stayed during his tour to the country.
Pyongyang accused him of supporting the U.S. hostile policy against the DPRK and undermining the unity of the DPRK people.
Tillerson said in a statement that the U.S. State Department continues to have discussions with the DPRK regarding three other U.S. citizens reported detained.
Three U.S. nationals are still being held in the DPRK following Warmbier's release. Two of them -- Kim Hak Song and Kim Sang Duk -- are teachers of Korean origin who worked at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, and the third is a South Korea-born American named Kim Dong-chul.
The two American teachers were arrested last month for allegedly carrying out hostile activities against Pyongyang. The DPRK foreign ministry spokesman has said they are under investigation by a relevant legislative organ for ""criminal acts against the DPRK.""
Kim Dong-chul, who emigrated to the United States in 1972, was charged with plotting to subvert the DPRK system, slandering the country's leadership and gathering state and military secrets when he was on trial in April J. D. Martinez Jersey , 2016 and sentenced to 10 years of hard labor.
In 2014, Pyongyang released Korean-American missionary Kenneth Bae, who had been arrested for hostile acts against the DPRK and was serving a 15-year hard labor sentence.
Together with Kenneth Bae, the DPRK government released Matthew Todd Miller, another U.S. citizen who tore his visa upon arrival at Pyongyang International Airport in an alleged attempt to seek asylum and was later given a six-year sentence for similar charges.
The United States has accused Pyongyang of holding the detainees as political pawns for negotiations with Washington.