'If we ignore this cancer, it’s not going to go away, it’s going to kill all of us,' Cindy Warmbier said.
The mother of Otto Warmbier, the 22-year-old American student who died in 2017 after being detained in North Korea, called President Donald Trump's policy toward the country a"charade" on Friday.
She also called North Korea a"cancer," saying,"If we ignore this cancer, it’s not going to go away, it’s going to kill all of us." Otto Warmbier died in September 2017, shortly after re-entering the U.S. in a coma following 17 months detention in a North Korean prison. He was preparing to leave North Korea in 2016 after a tour through the country when he was arrested and accused of attempting to steal a propaganda poster and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment and hard labor.
Army Staff Sergeant Justin Peck sits with Fred and Cindy Warmbier during the State of the Union address in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C., on January 30, 2018. Alex Wong/Getty Images But the second summit between Trump and Kim, which took place at the end of February, finished in disappointment, with the leaders failing to reach an agreement. Trump had proposed that North Korea end its nuclear weapons programs in exchange for the U.S. stopping sanctions on the country.
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