"While I greatly appreciate the efforts of President Xi & China to help with North Korea, it has not worked out", Trump wrote in a tweet. "There's no way for me to know that for sure".
Throughout the presidential campaign and early weeks of his presidency, Trump suggested that China alone could solve issues with North Korea.
Although a senior White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the United States had limited options to rein in North Korea without Chinese assistance.
Dozens of North Korean missile launches and two nuclear bomb tests since the beginning of previous year have heightened tensions on the Korean peninsula.
Warmbier's parents haven't cited a cause of death, but "awful, torturous mistreatment" by North Korea.
He said he had always thought it was "unimaginable" that a U.S. citizen could die in a North Korean prison, and that he himself was never beaten or otherwise severely maltreated by the regime.
Trump said this week that "the results would have been different" had Warmbier been released and brought home sooner, but he did not provide any specific details.
His father, Fred Warmbier, said last week that he believed Otto had been fighting for months to stay alive to return to his family.
North Korea said last month that it was its sovereign right to "ruthlessly punish" U.S. citizens it had detained for crimes against the state. "He should have been brought home that same day", Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. Trump condemned the "brutal regime" and lamented the loss of a young man "in the prime of life". And that North Korea has to freeze its nuclear and missile programs before any dialogue.
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McCain said Tuesday, North Korea "murdered" Otto Warmbier, the 22-year-old American college student who died just days after North Korea released him from detention in a coma.
Following the meeting, China's role was one of the administration's main talking points in explaining North Korea.
CINCINNATI (AP) - A cause of death hasn't been determined for a 22-year-old college student who was detained for almost a year and a half in North Korea before being sent home in a coma, an OH coroner's office said Tuesday.
The University of Virginia student was accused of trying to steal a propaganda banner while visiting with a tour group and was sentenced to 15 years in prison with hard labor.
"Since a year ago, I refrained from public activities out of concern that it could harm American and Canadian detainees in the North", Bae said in the interview.
United States officials told CNN that if a sixth nuclear test by North Korea were to occur, it would be clear that the existing pressure by China on North Korea is not working. Yet, he wanted to make clear that any American "stupid" enough to travel to North Korea for leisure after what they just witnessed should be made to sign on the dotted line promising not to blame the USA for whatever may transpire.
Klein said fellow players looked up to Warmbier on and off the field, admiring his light-hearted spirit, his passion for the game and his love for travel.
When asked whether the president supports a travel ban for those headed to North Korea, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said, "I think the State Department is mulling additional advisories, and I'll leave it to them".
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