Cindy Warmbier, mother of Otto Warmbier, condemned North Korea as 'a cancer on the earth' and pleaded with the international community -- particularly the US -- to maintain pressure on the nation and its leader, Kim Jong Un
Cindy Warmbier on Friday condemned North Korea as"a cancer on the earth" and pleaded with with the international community -- particularly the US -- to maintain pressure on the nation and its leader, Kim Jong Un.
"Unless we keep the pressure on North Korea, they are not going to change," she said at the Hudson Insitute, a Washington based think tank. Her son, Otto, was imprisoned in North Korea for 17 months before being returned to the US in a coma. He died days later at the age of 22.Cindy Warmbier noted that she was"very afraid that we're going to let up on this pressure.
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