President Trump, asked about responsibility for American Otto Warmbier's death: 'A lot of people, big country,' and Kim Jong Un 'tells me that he didn’t know about it, and I’ll take him at his word.”
, who died shortly after being released from 17 months of detention in North Korea, President Donald Trump said Thursday.
"Some really bad things happened to Otto — some really really bad things. But he tells me that he didn't know about it and I will take him at his word," Trump said, referring to the North Korean dictator.Otto Warmbier is taken to a court in Pyongyang, North Korea, on March 16, 2016."I really don't think it was in his interest at all," he addedTrump said Kim"knew the case very well but he knew it later.
North Korea is one of the world's worst rights abusers and most repressive governments. International investigators have accused it of extermination, murder, torture, rape — among other things. Warmbier, 22, was arrestedfor taking a propaganda banner from a hotel while on a visit to Pyongyang in January 2016.The North Korean government released him in June 2017, and when he returned to U.S. soil, doctors found him to be in a state of unresponsive wakefulness.since shortly after being sentenced.Cincinnati, where he was transported after his release.
“We got halfway up the steps, we heard this howling, involuntary, inhuman sound. We weren’t really certain what it was,” Fred Warmbier said. “Otto was on the stretcher … and was jerking violently making these inhuman sounds.”in damages from North Korea's government.
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