President Trump said the U.S. didn’t pay a $2 million hospital bill presented by North Korea or make any other payment to Pyongyang when it secured the release of American college student Otto Warmbier in 2017.
President Trump said Friday the U.S. didn’t pay a $2 million hospital bill presented by North Korea or make any other payment to Pyongyang when it secured the release of American college student Otto Warmbier in 2017.
“No money was paid to North Korea for Otto Warmbier, not two Million Dollars, not anything else,” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter.A video released by Otto Warmbier’s brother shows the U.S. student with his tour group in North Korea in January 2016, just before he was detained for allegedly defacing a political poster. Photo: Austin Warmbier
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