“At least he got home to his parents,” Trump said during an event in the State Dining Room, according to Bloomberg. “It’s a brutal regime and we’ll be able to handle it.”
Warmbier spent a year and a half behind bars in North Korea for trying to take a propaganda poster from his hotel room. Soon after his conviction, he suffered a “severe neurological” injury, doctors have said.
“Melania and I offer our deepest condolences to the family of Otto Warmbier on his untimely passing,” Trump said in a statement.
“Otto’s fate deepens my Administration’s determination to prevent such tragedies from befalling innocent people at the hands of regimes that do not respect the rule of law or basic human decency,” he added.
“The United States once again condemns the brutality of the North Korean regime as we mourn its latest victim.”
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