But his scorn for the reclusive nation has seemingly grown in the days since Otto Warmbier, a young American man who was imprisoned in North Korea for 17 months and reportedly tortured, was returned to the us last week in a coma.
A spokesman for the Hamilton County coroner said Dr Lakshmi Sammaraco's office has accepted the case of Otto Warmbier, who died on Monday in a Cincinnati hospital.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned Monday that Washington holds North Korea "accountable" for Warmbier's fate, and demanded the release of three other Americans held by North Korea.
Warmbier had been sentenced to 15 years of hard labor after being found guilty of trying to steal a propaganda poster from a hotel during a January 2016 visit to North Korea's capital.
When he returned to the United States from North Korea last week after being medically evacuated, he was in a coma with severe brain damage. Whether that treatment included rotten food, unsafe pharmaceuticals and neglectful medical treatment, or brutal beatings that finally put Warmbier into a coma, North Korea is responsible for Warmbier's death.
She said China has done a lot to increase pressure on the North, but should do more.
A public funeral has been planned for American student Otto Warmbier, who died shortly after being released from North Korea.
When a senior United States official visits North Korea, it is usually taken as a sign that tensions between the adversaries are easing somewhat.
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There is also mounting pressure on the Trump administration to impose a travel ban on North Korea in the wake of Warmbier's death.
"We. continue to urge China to exert its unique influence and leverage over North Korea as its largest trading partner", a key USA official had said.
The death of an American college student after his imprisonment in North Korea is threatening to overshadow the talks at the State Department.
"It's a total disgrace what happened to Otto", Trump told reporters in the White House, where he was meeting with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
The cause of Warmbier's death is not known, and his family objected to an autopsy, a request the Hamilton County Coroner's Office in OH honored.
That said, Trump did acknowledge that China at least tried.
Tony Kim had spent a month in North Korea teaching accounting at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (P.U.S.T.) and was about to leave the country when he was arrested, Chan-Mo Park, chancellor of the university, told the media.
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