“Kim and his evil regime are responsible for the death of our son,' the parents of Otto Warmbier, who died in 2017 of injuries sustained in a North Korean prison, said. “No excuses or lavish praise can change that.”
The parents of Otto Warmbier, who died of injuries sustained in prison in North Korea, issued a stinging rebuke to President Donald Trump for saying he believed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's claim that he was unaware of the brutal conditions under which their son was being held, or the abuse he suffered during his captivity.
Before departing from Hanoi, Trump was asked whether he raised the issue of Warmbier's captivity and death with Kim. Trump said he had. Warmbier, 22, was arrested in Pyongyang in 2016 for removing a banner from a hotel. He was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor. He was released in June 2017 but returned to the United States in a coma and died just days after he landed on U.S. soil.
And on CNN, Richardson said:"The president should know better. And what should happen is a full accounting. Kim Jong Un should say, to his intelligence people, 'Let's tell the truth on this.' But they're not going to do it." "I have great confidence in my intelligence people, but I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today," Trump said during a joint press conference with Putin.
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