North Korea has given the United States a medical bill of $ 2 million for the care of Otto Warmbier, the American repatriated in a coma.

Korea The North has presented a medical bill of US $ 2 million for the treatment of young Otto Warmbier, who died in 2017 after spending 17 months in prison in that Asian country before allowing him to return to a state of coma. -United. Thursday the Washington Post.

As well, Pyongyang demanded that a US official sign a promise to pay so that the young man of 22, in a coma for over a year, can return home.

According to Washington Post, who quotes two people aware of the situation, the State Department envoy returning with Warmbier, Joseph Yun, signed the agreement to pay the medical bill on the instructions of US President Donald Trump.

Yun consulted then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and this, in turn, with Trump, who approved it, according to the newspaper.

After that, Yun returned on a medical plane to Cincinatti, the town where Warmbier's parents reside, and where the young man died six days later because of problems caused by an unspecified brain injury.

The bill was sent to the Treasury Department, where it was not collected in 2017. It is unclear whether the US government paid later or whether the problem was addressed during the preparation of the two summits between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un

The parents of the deceased accused Pyongyang at any time of the death of their son and even, in April of last year, they came to file a lawsuit against Korea North to "torture and murder" the young American.

The controversy over the case that upset public opinion in view of the tragic end of the young student was resumed when Trump raised the issue after his meeting with Kim in Vietnam in February of this year.

"I talked to him (about it) and I really think he did not favor anything of what happened (…) He told me that he did not know (when Warmbier is dead) and I believe him ", Said Trump at a press conference.

Otto Warmbier went to the Asian country at the end of 2015 with the company Young Pioneer Tours. At the end of his visit, he was arrested and sentenced to 15 years of forced labor, accused of stealing a propaganda poster in the hotel where he was staying. .

His death further exacerbated the dialectical escalation maintained at the time by Washington and Pyongyang as the North Korean government continued to test weapons, and led the state department to ban its citizens. to go to Asia, a veto that remains today. .