follow. the american student currently in a coma after released by the north korean government. he is back home in ohio. he is not in good shape. video captured the moment otto warmbier was carried off the plane last night. he spent 17 months in detention in north korea. he has been in a coma, we are told, for more than a year. cnn s paula hancocks live in seoul with more. the obvious question is how? reporter: exactly, chris. that is what everyone is asking. the information is from north korean side. they are telling u.s. officials that otto warmbier contracted botulism after the trial in 20116 they claimed he took asleeping pill and never woke up. the state department here is clearly saying that they are going to not take it at face value you.
they don t know about the timing and cause until the doctors look at him. go back to march of 2016 and remind ourselves of the trial. hour-long trial televised. clearly otto warmbier was under duress. he was found guilty against the acts of the regime. he took a political poster off the wall. he was charged with 15 years of hard lab or. he is now headed back to the states and his family who last week found out he had been in a coma for all that time. clearly a devastating time for them. paula, thank you very much for all that. we want to discuss with our cnn military analyst john kirby and medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. sanjay, you heard what paula said. he contracted botulism and took a sleeping pill and slipped into a coma. it doesn t make sense.
south korea. the start of an 11-day trip to asia and to the pacific. president trump meanwhile, spending easter weekend at his resort in florida, aids from the national security council are keeping the president briefed on the situation in north korea. cnn s paula hancocks live in seoul, south korea. and north korea clearly sending a message with these, at least, canisters of these icbms. give us some context here. absolutely, victor. it s a good point that you make that they are canisters. we don t know what is exactly inside, if anything was inside them. but experts around the world, intelligence agencies around the world will be pouring over these pictures right now to try to ascertain exactly what the capability of north korea is. the thing that we re focussing on that most experts find the most interesting is two new icbms, the intercontinental ballistic missile canisters appearing to be those, at least that of course would worry the
united states the most. kim jong-un, the north korean leader made it very clear what he wants to do is to be able to hit mainland u.s. with an icbm with a nuclear warhead on top. and he said just at the beginning of this year that he was going to test launch an icbm and he was close to that. so this is what everyone is looking at right now. you see kim jong-un there interestingly in a western suit and a tie, not in the military mouse suit you so often see him in. so that s an interesting point as well. but you have submarine-launched ballistic missiles, the land-based ballistic missiles. these solid fuel missiles believed to be, according to analysts, which of course concern the west far more, because it s much quicker to be able to launch those, far more difficult for the west to detect them. victor? paula, let s talk about the vice president who is setting off on this 11-day tour. he s going to be heading to seoul, south korea first. what will the message be that he s going to take
slowdown their nuclear ambitions. as this point, although it is heavily sanctioned, they are still progressing. paula, thanks. 11 minutes after the hour. the dow makes history. posting its worst four-day start to a year ever. the dow dropped 392 points thursday. down 5% for the year. both the dow and nasdaq now officially in a correction. that means this is the 10% drop from the highs last summer. the s&p 500 still has a way go before it is officially a correction. let s show you what it looks like right now. futures right now are higher. markets in europe up as well. asia finished mixed. you have not seen a continuation of the violent fearful selling in stocks that really just spread around the world this week. china as ditched the so-called circuit breakers. the speed bump which halted