'I will take him at his word': Trump accepts Kim's claim about Warmbier
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Warmbier was a 21-year-old University of Virginia student on a group tour when he was seized by North Korean authorities in January 2016, and accused of trying to steal a propaganda poster praising dictator Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un’s father.
Trump said he took Kim at his word when the North Korean leader said he didn’t know about Warmbier’s treatment.Credit:AP
He was initially sentenced to 15 years of hard labour, but was returned to the US in June 2017 in a comatose state – brain dead, blind and deaf. He died shortly afterward in Ohio, his home state.
At the time, Trump called his treatment “a disgrace” and said that the North Korean government was a “brutal regime”.
American authorities were told Warmbier had been in a coma for more than a year of his imprisonment, since April 2016 – two months after being forced to recite a videotaped confession in which he said he took the poster at the behest of the CIA and an Ohio church.
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