Just two days earlier, Trump had condemned the "brutality of the North Korean regime" after the death of Otto Warmbier, an American student who was detained in North Korea for almost a year and a half.
Otto Warmbier, the University of Virginia student who was detained in North Korea for almost a year and a half, died on the afternoon of Monday, June 19. The service is open to the public but not the media.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in yesterday said North Korea should swiftly return South Koreans and Americans detained in the reclusive nation and that it had "a heavy responsibility" in the death of a US university student.
Warmbier was sentenced to hard labor in North Korea after being convicted of attempting to steal a propaganda poster from a hotel in Pyongyang.
Some 2,500 mourners lined up early on Thursday morning at Wyoming High School, in the Cincinnati suburb of Wyoming.
Warmbier's death came just days after he was released by the North Korean government and returned to the United States suffering from what USA doctors described as extensive brain damage.
Vagonis, who dated Warmbier for more than a year before he left for North Korea, recalled how the two met at a party at Warmbier's apartment, where she noticed his "insane" tie collection.
"We both call for the immediate, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, and on DPRK to halt its illegal nuclear weapons program and its ballistic missile tests", Tillerson said, adding that United States officials expect China to exert greater pressure on Pyongyang. The United States and its allies would like to see an oil embargo and bans on the North Korean airline and guest workers among other moves, steps diplomats say have been resisted by China and Russian Federation.
Otto Warmbier was supposed to graduate from the University of Virginia with the class of 2017, but instead, his family is preparing to bury their son.
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Ohio's Republican senator calls Otto Warmbier "an wonderful young man" who shouldn't have been detained. At the time of his death, Warmbier was in a state of "unresponsive wakefulness", and doctors said he had suffered extensive loss of brain tissue.
Medical tests did not show what precipitated his injuries, but also found no evidence of the botulism infection that North Korea claimed was the cause of his coma.
The Ohio coroner's office said on Tuesday that it had not been able to determine the cause of Warmbier's death after carrying out an external examination.
Dr. Daniel Laskowitz, a professor of neurology at Duke University, told NBC News that to suddenly die after several months in a "persistent vegetative state" would be the result of either an infection or a blood clot.
"He just lived life with such a zest and a passion that I haven't really ever experienced in somebody before", Warmbier's childhood friend Chris Colloton told the Cincinnati Inquirer newspaper.
JTA reported last week, before his death, that Warmbier became active at the University of Virginia campus Hillel following a 2014 Birthright trip to Israel.
Tillerson says the US and China agree that their companies should not do business with any North Korean companies that are subject to United Nations sanctions.
"Unfortunately, the very bad torturous mistreatment our son received at the hands of the North Koreans ensured that no other outcome was possible", they said.
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