North Korea released Otto Warmbier, a student detained for over a year, June 12.
"That should never have been allowed to happen", he said Monday. "And frankly, if he were brought home sooner, I think the results would have been a lot different", Trump said during a White House meeting with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. When he arrived, he was in a coma, which North Korea said was due to him contracting botulism and taking a sleeping pill.
A human rights activist who spoke to the news service said North Korean officials outside the country are concerned about rising worldwide anger over the death of the 22-year-old college student, who was freed in a comatose state days before his death.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley says "countless innocent men and women have died at the hands of the North Korean criminals".
In a press conference afterward, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the US has made a commitment to "hold North Korea accountable" for multiple violations of UN Security Council resolutions that "explicitly prohibited its nuclear weapon and missile programme". "Our deepest sympathies are with the family and friends of Mr. Warmbier at this time of their tragic loss".
He was arrested at the airport in Pyongyang for allegedly trying to steal a propaganda poster from a restricted area in January 2016 while visiting the country on a sightseeing tour organized by a Chinese-based company.
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Warmbier's doctors say he had severe brain damage but they don't know what caused it.
A funeral for Otto will be held on Thursday at 9 a.m.at his former high school Wyoming High School, located at 106 Pendery Ave.
North Korea's treatment of an American student who died after being released from detention in a coma was inhumane and USA patience with Pyongyang is running out, Pentagon chief James Mattis said Wednesday.
President Trump promised Monday night that North Korea would answer for its injustices against the Warmbier family. Patients in this condition who have survived a coma can open their eyes, but they do not respond to commands.
Korean-Americans Tony Kim and Kim Hak Song, who worked at the foreign-funded Pyongyang University of Science and Technology in the capital, were recently detained for hostile acts against the government, according to North Korea's state media. He died surrounded by family in an OH hospital.
The doctors who were treating him in Cincinnati, however, refute the botulism claim.
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