"It puts us in a really precarious situation when Americans are detained there".
Asked about the United States and other countries possibly imposing wider sanctions on North Korea, he replied: "My country has been under sanctions for more than 60 years by Americans".
The Trump administration secured Warmbier's release from North Korea last week on humanitarian grounds after almost 18 months of imprisonment.
Following Warmbier's death, the tour group that arranged his trip to North Korea said it would no longer take Americans into the isolated country. "He looked very uncomfortable - nearly anguished", they said. Americans comprise about a fifth of all non-Chinese tourists to North Korea, tour operators say.
Trump spoke briefly about Warmbier during an Oval Office meeting with the president of Ukraine.
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.
But the US President took to Twitter on Tuesday to offer a grim assessment of China's role in restraining North Korea: "While I greatly appreciate the efforts of President Xi & China to help with North Korea, it has not worked out".
Moon, who is scheduled to visit Washington next week, also said in an interview with CBS on Tuesday he hoped to draw North Korea into negotiations on its nuclear program by the end of the year.
He was medically evacuated in a coma to the US last week and died Monday.
Warmbier's parents - Fred and Cindy - said that they had not been informed about their son's state and they had learned of this only one week ago before his release.
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George Hunziker said his brother was young like Warmbier and did not realize the seriousness of his actions. More than 15 months after he gave a staged confession in North Korea, he is with his OH family again. "But it turned out that Otto did not really make it home". "The way his detention was handled was appalling, and a tragedy like this must never be repeated", it said.
Doctors say he had severe brain damage but they don't know what caused it.
Warmbier was a 21-year-old college student when he signed up for a bargain tour of North Korea.
While the State Department has strongly warned against any travel to North Korea for years, at least 17 Americans have been detained in the past 10 years - three are still now imprisoned.
Kasich calls Warmbier a young man of exceptional spirit.
"My heartfelt sympathy to Otto Warmbier's family and his many friends".
Warmbier's death has only heightened U.S. The family declined an autopsy. North Korean authorities said last week that Warmbier's release was "out of humanitarian considerations". On June 13, Warmbier was released while in a coma, dying six days later. He died Monday in Cincinnati.
He said: "It's a total disgrace, what happened to Otto, and frankly, if he had been brought home sooner, I think the result would have been a lot different". He was sentenced two months later to 15 years of hard labour for trying to steal an item bearing a propaganda slogan from his hotel in North Korea's capital, Pyongyang, the nation's state media said.
The college student died shortly after his return to OH after being held for more than 17 months.
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