Instead, Pompeo broadly cast Warmbier's death as that fault of the 'NorthKorean regime' and declined to explain President Donald Trump's fondness forKim himself
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo repeatedly refused to blame American student Otto Warmbier’s death on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during an appearance before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday.
“Was he responsible for the decision not to allow Otto Warmbier to come home until he was on death’s door?” Malinowski asked of Kim. North Korea imprisoned Warmbier for stealing a propaganda poster during a trip in 2016 and sentenced him to 15 years of hard labor. Pyongyang released him to the United States a year later in critical condition, and he died in June 2017.
North Korea policy experts said they weren’t surprised by Pompeo’s reluctance to link Kim directly to Warmbier’s death on Wednesday, saying that by doing so, the Trump administration can appear to be taking a hard line against the regime while maintaining some semblance of diplomacy with Kim himself.
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