In the wake of Warmbier's death, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said the U.S.is clearly "moving further away, not closer" to talks with North Korea.
The University of Virginia student died Monday. "At least I know China tried", Trump wrote on Twitter.
Portman also thanked the State Department for its work in securing Warmbier's release and urged them to secure the release of other Americans held in the country.
Unites States satellites have detected activity at a North Korean nuclear test site for the first time in several weeks, two officials told CNN.
A tour agency that took Mr Warmbier into North Korea before he was detained for 18 months has said it will stop taking Americans into the reclusive state.
Trump's statement, delivered in an nearly cavalier tweet on Tuesday, was an extraordinary admission of failure in his strategy for dealing with the North Korean regime of Kim Jong-un, New York Times said. The US side says North Korea will get "top billing" in the discussions.
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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. "But in the end, the only way to find out is to have a dialogue with North Korea". More than 15 months after he gave a staged confession in North Korea, he is with. "I'm sure there are high-ranking North Koreans who regret what happened to Warmbier and who think this was a mistake".
Warmbier, an OH native and student at the University of Virginia, was arrested in North Korea in January 2016 while visiting as a tourist.
The already tense dynamic with North Korea intensified after Otto Warmbier, the 22-year-old OH native held captive in North Korea for 17 months on spurious charges of subversion, was returned home last week in a near-comatose state. "I believe it is quite clear that they have a heavy responsibility in the process that led to Mr. Warmbier's death". The U.S. officials are concerned that a test could be initiated on Wednesday, coinciding with a visit by Chinese officials to Washington for high-level talks.
North Korea Ambassador to India Kye Chun-yong told reporters Pyongyang is open to talks and suspending its weapons testing if very specific conditions are met. He arrived in OH on June 13 after being held for more than 17 months.
Otto Warmbier's college girlfriend says he was her soul mate who helped her "become a better human being".
In March 2016, Kim Dong Chul, a 62-year-old Korean-American missionary, was sentenced to 10 years of hard labour for subversion.
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