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A professor at the University of Delaware has come under fire for arguing that Otto Warmbier, who passed away last week after being imprisoned by the North Korean government for over a year, deserved his fate because he was an affluent white male.

North Korea’s latest editorial broadside against the United States, delivered by state-run newspaper Rodong Sinmun, accuses President Donald Trump of seeking to start a war with the communist regime to distract from political problems at home.

Defense Secretary James Mattis said Wednesday he believed President Trump’s comment that American student Otto Warmbier, who died this week after being released from 18 months in detention in North Korea, should have been brought home much sooner, represented the American people’s view.

South Korea’s Yonhap news service reported on Wednesday that North Korea made a very tentative and conditional offer to discuss a ban on nuclear and ballistic missile testing.

The sorrowful reaction to Otto Warmbier’s death on Monday was not universal. Many from across the political spectrum, including the president, voiced their support for Warmbier and his family throughout his ordeal at the hands of North Korea. However, a small, yet vocal, cohort on the left were amused at the American’s misfortune. In some cases, they defended North Korea for punishing Warmbier. A general narrative condemning white male privilege emerged from those in the far-left justifying Warmbier’s punishment for stealing a North Korean propaganda poster.

A Florida clothing company has sparked outrage from social media users for “glorifying” North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un by promoting a men’s romper with the dictator’s face on it.

Americans are mourning the death of 22-year-old Otto Warmbier, a college student who was arrested and sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for allegedly stealing a poster in a hotel where he was staying.

The English-language propaganda arms of North Korea, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), and the Rodong Sinmun newspaper have yet to publish any news regarding the death of 22-year-old American Otto Warmbier as a result of his arrest in the country.

South Korean fighter jets are scheduled to train with two American B-1B Lancer supersonic bombers on Tuesday, a demonstration of cooperation and military power at a moment when questions about the new South Korean administration linger and anger at North Korea is mounting over the murder of American college student Otto Warmbier.

President Donald Trump appears disappointed in China’s efforts to stop continued aggression from North Korea.

Tuesday on MSNBC, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) said President Donald Trump “might be gullible” about China’s actions in helping America deal with North Korea. Franken was asked about President Trump’s latest tweet. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/877234140483121152 Franken said, “I don’t know why he

Young Pioneer Tours, a travel operation that brings Western communist sympathizers into North Korea, Cuba, and other danger zones, announced Tuesday it will no longer accept Americans on its trips to North Korea following the death of Otto Warmbier.

Fred Fleitz, senior vice president for Policy and Programs at the Center for Security Policy and former CIA analyst, joined Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Tuesday to discuss the death of Otto Warmbier just days after returning from North Korea. He also talked about the possibility that Loretta Lynch will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

North Korea’s propaganda mouthpiece, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), has published a government statement accusing officials with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security of “literally mugging” unnamed North Korean officials in New York.

Otto Warmbier, an American student detained in North Korea for committing “hostile acts” has died, his parents confirm in a statement. He was 22.

Dr. Sebastian Gorka, Deputy Assistant to the President and former National Security editor for Breitbart News, discussed President Trump’s Cuba policy, America’s downing of a Syrian warplane, and the release of American hostage Otto Warmbier from North Korea on Monday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily.

Even as North Korea’s outlaw regime fumed that international sanctions against its missile and nuclear programs are unreasonable and disgraceful, North Korean forces have reportedly hijacked a Russian yacht.

On Friday’s Breitbart News Daily, former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton reacted to breaking news that Russia claims to have killed Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in an airstrike, then moved on to discuss North Korea’s release of American hostage Otto Warmbier and the current state of U.S. relations with Cuba.

The family of former North Korean hostage Otto Warmbier blasted the Obama administration for its handling of his plight in a press conference on Thursday, as his doctors spoke of extensive brain damage and appeared to dismiss Pyongyang’s claims he was felled by botulism.

The mother of an American man wrongfully imprisoned in Venezuela says she is hopeful the Trump administration may soon secure the release of her son after the return of 22-year-old student Otto Warmbier to the United States this week from North Korea.

NBA Hall of Fame’s Dennis Rodman is in North Korea visiting dictator Kim Jong-un “trying to open a door” between the North Korea leader and United States President Donald Trump. Thursday, Rodman did just that, giving North Korea’s sports minister a

Eccentric basketball star Dennis Rodman arrived in North Korea for his latest visit on Tuesday, and promptly captured the rapt attention of American media by presenting dictator Kim Jong-un with a copy of Donald Trump’s 1987 book “The Art of the Deal.”

The Chinese Foreign Ministry has welcomed basketball player Dennis Rodman’s fifth visit to North Korea, responding that both his presence there and the release of American citizen Otto Warmbier on Tuesday were “surely a positive move.”

American officials have confirmed that the release of Otto Warmbier, a U.S. citizen imprisoned in a labor camp in North Korea for “hostile acts” against the communist state, resulted from high-level diplomacy and was “a big priority” for President Donald Trump.

Defense Secretary James Mattis called North Korea the “most urgent and dangerous threat,” effectively demoting Russia from the top position.

A North Korean drone spied on a U.S. missile defense base in South Korea before crashing nearby, according to a report.

NBA Hall of Fame’s Dennis Rodman arrived in North Korea Tuesday morning for a trip he says he hopes will “open a door” for his former “Celebrity Apprentice” boss — President Donald Trump. “I’m just here to see some friends and

Basketball celebrity Dennis Rodman has returned to Pyongyang, North Korea, for a “peace and love” “mission” in the repressive communist country.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced on Tuesday morning that North Korea has released 22-year-old American student Otto Warmbier, who was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in March 2016. Unfortunately, there are reports Warmbier lapsed into a coma for unknown reasons shortly after his last public appearance over a year ago.

South Korea’s newly-installed left-wing government has halted the installation of multiple parts of the American Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System (THAAD) due to environmental concerns, an announcement stated closely followed by a new North Korean missile launch.

Moscow police are investigating the bizarre case of two North Korean migrant workers who were found dead in separate hotel rooms, having suffered “acute heart failure” after the injection of a “mystery drug.”

Defense Secretary James Mattis over the weekend assured nervous allies in the Asia Pacific that the U.S. military is committed to securing stability in the region, amid several rising threats.

Guamanians are more and more concerned with the rising potential of a North Korean missile strike hitting this U.S. territory, the closest U.S. soil to Pyongyang, Guam’s Lt. Gov. Ray Tenorio told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview here this week.

South Korea, which has been considering resuming humanitarian and religious human exchanges with North Korea, approved eight such requests on Friday.

A joint military exercise between the United States and Japan began in the Sea of Japan on Thursday amid tensions caused by North Korean missile launches and a possible upcoming nuclear test.

The newly elected president of South Korea, Moon Jae-in, sent a special emissary to the Vatican to ask Pope Francis to mediate in efforts toward reconciliation in the Korean peninsula.