The president said he believes Kim Jong Un when he says he was not responsible for American Otto Warmbier’s death, but Haley blamed the North Korean regime’s “cruelty.”
President Donald Trump’s former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley publicly contradicted the president on Thursday by issuing a statement on American student Otto Warmbier, who died after being held in a North Korean prison.
President Trump has criticized North Korea’s role in Warmbier’s death in the past. But since he began building his reputation as a diplomat and dealmaker on his budding relationship with North Korea’s Kim, his rhetoric has changed dramatically. “He tells me he didn't know about it, and I take him at his word,” Trump said of Kim during the press conference. “I don't believe he would have allowed that to happen…. It just wasn't to his advantage to allow that to happen.”
Haley resigned suddenly from her job as United Nations ambassador in October last year, leaving many to speculate over the cause of her departure. In her resignation letter, Haley said she was proud of the Trump administration’s record at the U.N.
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