The Latest: North Korea denies torturing American detainee
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The Latest on North Korea's denial that it tortured an American student who was detained for more than a year and died days after being released in a coma (all times local):
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North Korea has called itself the "biggest victim" in the death of an American student who was detained for more than a year and died days after being released in a coma.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The North's official Korean Central News Agency on Friday denied that North Korea cruelly treated or tortured Otto Warmbier and accused the United States and South Korea of a smear campaign that insulted what it called its "humanitarian" treatment of him.
Doctors in the United States who examined Warmbier after his release by North Korea said he had suffered a severe neurological injury from an unknown cause. Relatives say they were told the 22-year-old University of Virginia student had been in a coma since shortly after he was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in North Korea in March 2016.
His family and others have blamed North Korea for his condition.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Warmbier was accused of stealing a propaganda poster. KCNA said North Korea dealt with him according to its domestic laws and international standards.