Whereas Otto Frederick Warmbier was born on December 12, 1994, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to parents Fred and Cindy Warmbier; Whereas, upon his graduation as Salutatorian from Wyoming High School in 2013, Otto attended the University of Virginia; Whereas, on December 29, 2015, Otto flew to North Korea as part of a guided tour; Whereas, on January 2, 2016, the Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea arrested Otto Warmbier for false charges of subversion and committing a hostile act ; Whereas, on March 16, 2016, Otto Warmbier was convicted and sentenced to 15 years of hard labor; Whereas, as a result of his mistreatment at the hands of North Korean authorities, Otto Warmbier suffered a serious medical emergency which placed him into a comatose state, and the North Korean authorities failed to report the deterioration of Otto Warmbier’s physical condition to United States authorities; Whereas, on June 13, 2017, after 17 months in captivity, the United States Department of State announced that it had secured the release of Otto Warmbier, whereupon he was medically evacuated from North Korea in a comatose state to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center; Whereas, on June 19, 2017, Otto Warmbier died in the hospital as a result of the mistreatment at the hands of the Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea; Whereas, on December 24, 2018, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia concluded that the Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was responsible for the torture, hostage taking, and extrajudicial killing of Otto Warmbier; Whereas, on December 18, 2019, the United Nations General Assembly condemned the long-standing and ongoing systematic, widespread and gross violations of human rights in and by North Korea in an annual resolution; and Whereas, on December 20, 2019, the Otto Warmbier North Korea Nuclear Sanctions and Enforcement Act of 2019 (title LXXI of Public Law 116–92 ), was enacted: Now, therefore, be it