China on Tuesday (June 20) expressed sorrow over the death of U.S. student Otto Warmbier following his release from North Korea in a coma, and urged Washington and Pyongyang to resolve tensions through dialogue.
"Frankly, if he was brought home sooner, I think the result would have been a lot different", the president said.
A tragic end to a North Korean holiday, Warmbier's detention, his comatose release, his untimely death is hardening language in Washington. "It puts us in a really precarious situation when Americans are detained there".
Dozens of North Korean missile launches and two nuclear bomb tests since the beginning of a year ago have heightened tensions on the Korean peninsula.
"Unfortunately, the terrible, torturous mistreatment our son received at the hands of the North Koreans ensured that no other outcome was possible beyond the sad one we experienced today", his parents said.
Warmbier was arrested and imprisoned in North Korea during President Barack Obama's time in office, though North Korea only informed the U.S. of Warmbier's medical condition earlier this month.
Otto Warmbier was arrested by police at the airport of Pyongyang in January 2016 for stealing a political slogan banner from his hotel wall.
McCain says, "We all know that the Russians tried to interfere in our elections". For one thing, his sentence - 15 years' hard labour - was far longer than those handed out to others for what would seem to be far more significant crimes.
O'Donnell asked Moon specifically about McCain's comments, and whether he believed that North Korea should be held responsible for Warmbier's death.
Former Obama staff: We never stopped trying to bring Otto Warmbier home
Yun learned about Warmbier's condition in a meeting a week before the release from the North Korean ambassador at the U.N.in NY . Their statement Monday said he looked uncomfortable and anguished after returning June 13, but his countenance later changed.
Three Americans remain imprisoned in North Korea.
The organizers of Warmbier's trip say they will no longer take USA citizens to the country.
Doctors caring for him last week described him as having extensive brain damage that left him in a state of "unresponsive wakefulness."Moon said that while "we can not know for sure that North Korea killed Mr. Warmbier, I believe it is quite clear that they have a heavy responsibility in the process that led to Mr. Warmbier's death".
Sen. John McCain said Tuesday that Americans who are "stupid" enough to still want to travel to North Korea should be required to sign a waiver absolving the USA government of any blame should they be harmed while there. -China talks on Wednesday likely to focus on North Korea, Geng said China "remains committed to resolving the Korean Peninsula issue through dialogue and consultation".
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.
U.S. Sen. John McCain says Americans who are "stupid" enough to still want to visit North Korea should be required to sign a waiver absolving the U.S. government of any blame if they're harmed while there.
Corker says the USA should think about a North Korea travel ban because "trumped-up charges like this can continue to happen". Warmbier was in a coma and reportedly had a severe brain injury when he was released on Tuesday on what North Korea called " humanitarian grounds". Following Otto Warmbier's death, Moon condemned North Korea.
North Korea's routine brutality to prisoners has been well-documented but in the past, the regime generally had refrained from mistreatment of Americans, apparently planning to use them as bargaining chips.
They said that Warmbier's brain injury was probably caused by cardiopulmonary arrest cutting the blood supply to the brain.
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