He spent a year and a half in N Korea, a lot of bad things happened but at least we got him to be with his parents.
"We hope that North Korea and the USA can handle it appropriately", he added.
"Otto's fate deepens my Administration's determination to prevent such tragedies from befalling innocent people at the hands of regimes that do not respect the rule of law or basic human decency".
At a White House event Monday, President Trump said Pyongyang "is a brutal regime and we'll be able to handle it".
On Monday, President Donald Trump offered his condolences to the family of Otto Warmbier, who died Monday after being held for more than 17 months by North Korea. He also demanded the release of the three remaining Americans illegally detained in the North. Officials from both the left and right joined in the condemnation, accusing the regime of murder on top of its threat to global security.
(AP Photo/John Minchillo). Fred Warmbier, father of Otto Warmbier, a University of Virginia undergraduate student who was imprisoned in North Korea in March 2016, speaks during a news conference, Thursday, June 15, 2017, at Wyoming High School in Cinci.
Dr Daniel Kanter, who examined Mr Warmbier, said: "We have no certifiable knowledge of the cause or circumstances of his neurological injuries".
The American doctors who watched Valmiera, said that he has serious brain damage.
So, President Trump isn't under investigation after all?
The Justice Department has said Muller's work at the firm does not disqualify him from leading the investigation. He says there should at least be tapes of any telephone conversations between the president and Comey.
Doctors said the most likely cause was cardiopulmonary arrest which cut blood supply to the brain.
Warmbier's death is the latest in a series of events in recent months which have led to further tension between Washington and Pyongyang. He was put before North Korean officials and journalists for a televised "confession".
Warmbier's family said they believed the student had found peace after being flown home. "I doubt very much the Russians will shoot at a manned American aircraft", said Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution.
"I believe that first we must vie for a freeze of North Korea's nuclear and missile programs".
As NPR's Michele Kelemen reported last week, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said his agency is considering a travel visa restriction to North Korea - but that would stop short of a full travel ban, which would require action by Congress. Both worked at the foreign-funded Pyongyang University of Science and Technology.
Young Pioneer Tours, the group with which Warmbier traveled to North Korea, will no longer be organizing tours for US citizens to the isolated country, Troy Collings, a company director, said in a statement.
While Otto's family and patriotic Americans mourn the loss of a young man struck down in his prime, Twitter recalled how leftist media including Salon, the Huffington Post, the Comedy Channel, Ebony magazine, and Bustle gleefully celebrated Warmbier's 2016 arrest.
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