WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump approved payment of a $2 million bill presented by North Korea to cover its care of comatose American Otto Warmbier, a college student who died shortly after being returned home from 17 months in a North Korean prison, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. The Post said an invoice…
President Trump defended North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un on Thursday over the treatment of Otto Warmbier, an American student who was arrested in North Korea in 2015 and later returned to his family in a coma, from which he later died. Speaking at a press conference after the end of a nuclear summit in…
The family of Otto Warmbier was awarded $500 million in a wrongful death lawsuit against North Korea, Bloomberg reported. Warmbier, a 22-year-old American student, died last year after being detained by North Korea for more than 17 months. He was returned to his family with severe brain damage. His parents, Fred and Cynthia Warmbier, sued…
Otto Warmbier’s parents said they hope “something positive” will come out of President Trump’s summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Fred and Cindy Warmbier said they appreciated Trump’s statement that their son did not die in vain. “We are proud of Otto and miss him,” the parents, who are Jewish, said in a…
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – U.S. college student Otto Warmbier did not die in vain days after he was released from North Korean custody in 2017, as his death helped initiate a process that led to Tuesday’s historic summit with North Korea, President Trump said. Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged, in the first…
Vice President Mike Pence said Saturday that he had spoken with Otto Warmbier’s father earlier in the day and that President Trump was going to the peace summit in Singapore with “with the family of Otto Warmbier on his heart,” CNN reported. Warmbier, a 22-year-old American student, was detained in North Korea for 17 months…
Otto Warmbier died a year ago this month. As President Trump meets with North Korea’s leader, it remains to be seen if justice will be served for the Ohio college student. With the death of one of our own, American Jews can no longer claim ignorance of the atrocities taking place in North Korea. Monday,…
The parents of Otto Warmbier filed suit in federal court against North Korea on Thursday, alleging that the regime “brutally tortured and murdered” him during his 17 months in captivity. Warmbier arrived in the United States in a coma after being released by Pyongyang and died soon after. Warmbier was “taken hostage, kept as a…
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