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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
This is the Otto I know and love. This is my brother. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
Warmbier was released from the rogue country on Tuesday. <\/p>\n
His father, Fred Warmbier, said his son had been brutalized and terrorized by Kim Jong Uns regime. <\/p>\n
Doctors at a Cincinnati hospital where Warmbier is being treated said the young man is suffering from severe brain injuries. <\/p>\n
He is in a state of unresponsive wakefulness, his doctors said. <\/p>\n
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