Trump long used Otto Warmbier's death to criticize Kim Jong Un. Then Kim became his 'friend.'
President Trump leaves at the end of a news conference in Hanoi on Thursday. By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow February 28 at 9:41 AM President Trump’s first State of the Union address included a pointed excoriation of the regime of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. A few months earlier, North Korea had released a young American named Otto Warmbier from its prisons, returning him to the United States.
Warmbier was a constant in Trump’s rhetoric on North Korea. When Trump focused on North Korea during his speech to the United Nations in September, Warmbier’s fate was intertwined with the murder of Kim’s half brother at a Malaysian airport as an indicator of the “deadly abuse” of the Kim regime. The brutal treatment of Warmbier, a “young, wonderful man” in Trump’s telling, served as a metaphor for how North Korea and Kim wanted to treat the United States itself.
Kim “felt badly about it,” Trump said. What's more: “He tells me that he didn’t know about it, and I will take him at his word.” "Every time he sees me, he says, ‘I didn’t do that,’"Trump later told reporters. “And I believe, I really believe, that when he tells me that, he means it.” Trump’s new comments about Warmbier came in the context of his second summit with Kim, a summit where Trump clearly hoped for a dramatic diplomatic breakthrough. That motivation was likely amplified by events taking place in Washington: the interrogation of Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen by the House Oversight Committee.
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