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Passage: North Korea frees American student

Otto Warmbier, a 22-year-old University of Virginia student who spent almost a year-and-a-half in captivity in North Korea, was released and returned to his family in the U.S. this week. Doctors said Warmbier, who was comatose, suffered severe brain damage while in detention. Jane Pauley reports.
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