TRUMP PAID $2,000,000 RANSOM TO NORTH KOREA FOR MURDERED AMERICAN
“This is outrageous. They killed a perfectly healthy and happy college student and then had the audacity to expect the U.S. government to pay for his care,” said Greg Scarlatoiu, executive director of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea.
The main U.S. envoy sent to retrieve Warmbier
signed an agreement to pay the medical bill on instructions passed down from President Trump, according to two people familiar with the situation. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
Warmbier, who was 21, fell into a coma for unknown reasons the night he was sentenced to 15 years in prison with hard labor in March 2016.
Fred Warmbier, Otto’s father, said he was never told about the hospital bill. He said it sounded like a “ransom” for his son.
“I don’t believe he would have allowed that to happen,” Trump
said in Hanoi in Februaryafter his second summit with Kim. Trump said that he spoke to Kim about the death of Warmbier and that Kim “feels badly about it.”
“He tells me he didn’t know about it, and I take him at his word,” Trump said in February.
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