U.S. student Otto Warmbier (left) died on Monday at age 22, just days after his release from North Korea in a vegetative state (right) following 17 months in custody.
Warmbier was returned to OH on June 13 after being held for more than 17 months. After years of openly crossing the border, he was detained in October 2015, accused of being a spy for South Korea and sentenced to 10 years of hard labor.
The Trump statement about China was likely to increase pressure on Beijing ahead of Wednesday's Diplomatic and Security Dialogue, which will pair U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Defense Secretary James Mattis with China's top diplomat, State Councilor Yang Jiechi, and General Fang Fenghui, chief of joint staff of the People's Liberation Army.
Spicer said the U.S. is continuing to work with China to apply pressure on North Korea and said the United States has seen "positive movement" with China.
The coroner's office in Cincinnati is investigating the death of an American college student who died less than a week after his return from North Korea, where he was detained for almost a year and a half.
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The tour operators who organized Otto Warmbier's fateful trip to North Korea said Tuesday that they were "reeling with shock over his death" and that they consequently will no longer take US citizens to the country.
"North Korea sent him back to the United States before he died because more questions would have been raised about his death and the situation would have gotten worse if it had returned his dead body", said Cheong Seong-jang, an analyst at the private Sejong Institute in South Korea.
He was being held for "hostile acts against the country", the regime's official news agency said, although details about the alleged acts were not provided by North Korean authorities. His family is blaming North Korea for "awful, torturous mistreatment".
"I think there have been some positive steps that they've taken, both at the United Nations and economically, to help strengthen the case against North Korea". Several senators said they were considering a travel ban.
Moon said that while "we can not know for sure that North Korea killed Mr Warmbier".
Warmbier said in his graduation speech that he took inspiration from an episode of "The Office".
He said he does not believe his position conflicts with the policy of the US or President Trump.
Trump also defended his decision not to label China a currency manipulator - something he pledged during the campaign - due to their work on North Korea.
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