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A Former Prisoner Of North Korea Sympathizes With Otto Warmbier

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Published June 15, 2017 at 12:52 PM EDT
In this March 16, 2016, file photo, American student Otto Warmbier, center, is escorted at the Supreme Court in Pyongyang, North Korea. Warmbier, whose parents say has been in a coma while serving a 15-year prison term in North Korea, was released and returned to the United States Tuesday, June 13, 2017, as the Trump administration revealed a rare exchange with the reclusive country. (Jon Chol Jin/AP)
In this March 16, 2016, file photo, American student Otto Warmbier, center, is escorted at the Supreme Court in Pyongyang, North Korea. Warmbier, whose parents say has been in a coma while serving a 15-year prison term in North Korea, was released and returned to the United States Tuesday, June 13, 2017, as the Trump administration revealed a rare exchange with the reclusive country. (Jon Chol Jin/AP)

The college student Otto Warmbier was released by North Korea after spending more than a year there. He is in a coma with severe neurological damage.

Euna Lee (@lee_euna), an American journalist, spent four months in a North Korean labor camp after she was captured with fellow journalist Laura Ling in 2009. Lee speaks with Here & Now‘s Meghna Chakrabarti about her experience in North Korea, and eventually coming home.

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