Trump says Kim 'felt very badly' after Otto Warmbier death by stableford
President Trump said on Thursday that he confronted Kim Jong Un over the death of Otto Warmbier, the U.S. college student who died in 2017 after being held in a Pyongyang prison — and that he does not hold the North Korean authoritarian leader responsible for Warmbier’s death.
Warmbier, a 21-year-old University of Virginia student from Ohio, was arrested and accused of committing a “hostile act” while on a study tour of North Korea in 2016. He was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor. "What happened [to Otto Warmbier] is horrible. I really believe something very bad happened to him, and I don't think that the top leadership knew about it," President Trump says. Kim Jong Un"tells me that he didn't know about it, and I will take him at his word." #HanoiSummit pic.twitter.com/QTPXQqkrDA
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