Newly released images show former North Korea detainee Otto Warmbier smiling with his tour group and throwing snowballs, before he was taken prisoner by the hermit nation.

A short video clip, released Thursday by Warmbiers brother, shows the 22-year-old University of Virginia student playing in the snow with friends in North Korea sometime in January 2016.

I wanted to share one final thing today before we take time to be alone as a family. This is the last video we have of Otto enjoying life before his imprisonment.

It was taken in North Korea with members of his tour group, Warmbiers younger brother Austin said as he released the video, according to The Daily Mail.

This is the Otto I know and love. This is my brother.

The video is believed to be the last clip of the Wyoming native before he was jailed for removing a propaganda poster from a hotel in 2016 and left comatose after 18 months in a North Korean prison.

Warmbier was released from the rogue country on Tuesday.

His father, Fred Warmbier, said his son had been brutalized and terrorized by Kim Jong Uns regime.

Doctors at a Cincinnati hospital where Warmbier is being treated said the young man is suffering from severe brain injuries.

He is in a state of unresponsive wakefulness, his doctors said.

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