The Trump administration is considering banning travel by USA citizens to North Korea, officials said Tuesday, as outrage grew over the death of American student Otto Warmbier and President Donald Trump declared it a "total disgrace".
"It's a total disgrace what happened to Otto. The results would have been a lot different", Trump said. The coroner, Lakshmi Kode Sammarco, is expecting to release initial results from her examination later on Tuesday or on Wednesday, Jasper said.Warmbier, who was born in OH, was arrested in North Korea in January 2016 while visiting as a tourist.
North Korea should immediately release other foreigners it has detained - six South Korean, one Canadian, and three Americans - and end its practice of seizing foreign nationals for political purposes.
The US will "continue to work with them and others to put the appropriate pressure on North Korea to change the behavior of this regime", Spicer said.
The Trump administration secured Warmbier's release from North Korea last week on humanitarian grounds after almost 18 months of imprisonment.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in said in an interview with CBS News on Tuesday, "This had happened while Mr. Warmbier was in the detention of North Korean authorities".
Relations between the United States and the North have fallen to new lows in recent months over threats by North Korea's young leader, Kim Jong-un, to attack the United States with nuclear weapons.
Warmbier's parents haven't cited a cause of death, but "awful, torturous mistreatment" by North Korea. Doctors last week described Warmbier's condition upon his return June 13 as a state of "unresponsive wakefulness" and said he suffered a "severe neurological injury" of unknown cause.
Warmbier was detained in January 2016 while visiting North Korea at the end of a five-day tour.
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The University of Virginia student was sentenced to 15 years in prison after his March trial before he reportedly fell ill from botulism and went into a coma after taking a sleeping pill.
Ojea-Quintana had called on Pyongyang on Friday to explain why Warmbier was in a coma when he was returned home after being denied access to legal and consular services.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Tuesday offered few details about how the U.S. plans to respond to the death of Warmbier, promising only that the USA will "continue to apply economic and political pressure" to change North Korea's behavior.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump issued an official statement to condemn North Korea's "brutality" following the student's death.
Some observers believe that North Korea became anxious because Warmbier's condition suddenly worsened.
"They just murdered him", McCain said.
Under their proposal, the Treasury Department would be ordered to prohibit all financial transactions related to travel to North Korea by Americans, unless specifically authorized by a US license.
Or maybe North Korea concealed his medical condition for so long in the hopes that he'd recover.
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