The U.S. has earmarked an extra $40 million to get outside information into North Korea over the next four years in honor of Otto Warmbier, an American college student who died in 2017 after more than a year in DPRK custody.

U.S. President Joe Biden signed the bill, dubbed the Otto Warmbier Countering North Korean Censorship and Surveillance Act of 2022, into law over the weekend as part of an annual defense spending package. 

“Under the brutal rule of Kim Jung Un … the North Korean regime has tightened controls on access to information, as well as enacted harsh