US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he doesn't think North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was involved in the mistreatment of American college student Otto Warmbier, who died after being detained in the isolated country. (Feb. 28)
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President Donald Trump responded to criticism Friday about his apparent acceptance of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's denial that he had any involvement in the death of a young American who had been held in North Korean custody. .
"Of course I hold North Korea responsible for Otto's mistreatment and death," Trump tweeted about Otto Warmbier, an Ohio college student who was arrested for allegedly stealing a propaganda poster during a trip to North Korea in 2016. When he was released in June 2017, he was in a coma with a brain injury and he died soon after his return to the U.S.
After meeting with Kim in Vietnam for a summit on North Korea's nuclear weapons program, Trump told reporters on Thursday, that Kim "felt badly about" Warmbier's death.
"I don't believe he knew about it," referring to Kim's involvement in Warmbier's death. "He tells me that he didn't know about it and I will take him at his word."
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