Warmbier's parents open up about Trump's comments on Kim's 'evil regime'

If you attack everything that President Trump says or does, you aren't thinking clearly and honestly judging him. If you support everything Trump says or does, you aren't thinking clearly and honestly judging him. There are times President Trump says and does the right thing, and other times when he doesn't.

While he was correct to walk away from the meeting in Hanoi with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, he was wrong to go there in the first place without preconditions for the meeting. Denuclearization should have been, at least in part, a precondition.

The parents of Otto Warmbier, an American college student, who died after his detention in North Korea, went public on Friday and countered President Trump’s suggestion that Kim Jong Un’s government was unaware of their son’s treatment – blaming the “evil regime” for Otto’s death and saying no amount of “lavish praise” can change that.

Trump was wrong to say that he believed that Kim had no knowledge of the beatings laid on Otto. People under Kim's iron fist rule don't go to the toilet without his knowledge and permission.

Trump drew bipartisan criticism for saying during Thursday’s summit that he takes Kim “at his word.” I don't care how much he is "keeping his friends close and his enemies closer" he does not need to lie to negotiate with this scumbag, and if he isn't lying, then Trump is totally naive.

“I believe something very bad happened to him,” Trump said. “I don’t think leadership knew about it,” he said incredulously.

Fred and Cindy Warmbier released a brief statement on Friday morning reiterating their long-held claim that the regime is responsible for their son’s death:

“We have been respectful during this summit process. Now we must speak out. Kim and his evil regime are responsible for the death of our son Otto. Kim and his evil regime are responsible for unimaginable cruelty and inhumanity. No excuses or lavish praise can change that.”

And Trump knows that nothing happens that can have a global impact without Kim Jong Un ordering or sanctioning it. Nothing.

The 22-year-old University of Virginia student died in June 2017 after being returned home in a vegetative state. His parents said he was tortured, which seems obvious to anyone with eyes and a brain.

The young man was visiting North Korea with a tour group when he was detained in 2016 for allegedly stealing a propaganda poster. 

North Korea has denied mistreating Warmbier, which of course they would.

Trump’s comments on the case drew criticism back home, recalling moments like when he did not challenge Vladimir Putin's denial of election meddling at their 2018 summit.

"We shouldn't be naive about this regime and about the way they mistreat their own people. And certainly the way they mistreated Otto Warmbier," Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH), said Thursday.

While there have been conflicting reports as to whether Warmbier was tortured, even President Trump asserted in September 2017 that Otto was “tortured beyond belief by North Korea.”

Perhaps Otto Warmbier's prison guards weren't concerned about what Kim Jong Un would do if he found out they had tortured an American college kid on a tour to his country. But maybe he gave them the green light to do just that.

I am sorry that President Trump provided Kim Jong Un with the global stature the Hanoi meeting gave him. But I am more sorry that Trump gave him an "out" for what he did to an American.

Sometimes Trump does good things and even great things. Sometimes he does bad things and even stupid things. If you can't be critical of a politician you like when he or she does a stupid or bad thing, you're not being intellectually honest.

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NoKo firing squads carried out executions in schoolyards

If you want to impress young minds of your strength and limitless power, kill people in their schoolyards as they watch. That's what Kim Jong Un's North Korean regime has been doing to "criminals," as they call anyone who does anything the regime doesn't like.

The kill folks in fish markets too. It's how they create an "atmosphere of fear" a Wednesday report from The Transnational Justice Working Group in Seoul reports, as they gathered information from over 300 North Korean refugees who were eyewitnesses to the regime's firing squad executing criminals in public areas to attract large crowds.

It's kind of like North Korean TV in a country where few people are privileged to own one.

The report said: "In ordinary areas outside the prison system, our interviewees stated that public executions take place near river banks, in river beds, near bridges, in public sports stadiums, in the local marketplace, on school grounds in the fringes of the city, or on mountainsides."

Some of the 'crimes' leading to executions, might be as simple as stealing rice or livestock, or distributing South Korean media. Such prisoners were mixed in with those convicted of violent crimes, such as murder and manslaughter, as well as prostitution and sexual assault.

"Many interviewees said that the final decision for a public execution was often influenced by individuals having a 'bad' family background in addition to the crime they were alleged to have committed," the report said.


Kim has long denied human rights abuses, but in 2014, a UN commission report found North Korea had a huge number of human rights violations. 

Taking a page out of the Democrat playbook, North Korea insists its people are protected under the country's constitution and Pyongyang accuses the United States of being the "world's worst rights violator."

Tell that to Otto Warmbier's family. 

The American student recently made international news after being sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in North Korea for allegedly stealing a political poster from a Pyongyang hotel. Otto was returned home last month but was in a coma and soon after his homecoming, he died.

Warmbier had suffered severe brain damage at the hands of the North Koreans, but they deny cruelly treating or torturing him during his time in prison and said that it was poor North Korea who was the "biggest victim" in the incident.


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Poor North Korea is the victim in Warmbier's death

What looks like something taken from the leftist playbook, North Korea is claiming victim status after their likely torturing an American citizen and freeing him only to have him die soon after his return.

Otto Warmbier, a University of Virginia student had been held captive in North Korea for 17 months. He allegedly stole a propaganda poster and was originally sentenced to 15 years in prison.

He was released just days ago but appeared to be in a vegetative state and he died on American soil.

In response to Warmbier's death, the first thing they claimed was that it was they, the North Koreans, who are the "biggest victim" in the tragedy. They're accusing the U.S. of collaborating with South Korea in a "smear campaign."

The cow-frisbee-flingers of the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) released a statement from an anonymous foreign ministry official [soon to be given a pogo-stick and told to bounce around in a mine field if he screws up]. The statement defended their actions and insisted that although the country "had no reason at all to show mercy to such a criminal of the enemy state" [for doing a college prank] Warmbier was provided with "medical treatments and care with all sincerity on humanitarian basis until his return to the U.S."

"The fact that Warmbier died suddenly in less than a week just after his return to the U.S. is a mystery to us as well," the statement said, noting that his health indicators were "normal" upon his release.

Yes, and Kim's uncle was doing just fine too until he was unfortunate to run into a pack of hungry dogs.

Doctors noted that Warmbier suffered from extensive brain damage but weren't able to determine the cause. He died June 19th--he was only 22. No autopsy was performed on his family's wishes.

North Koreans claimed Warmbier who had been comatose for over a year, contracted botulism after being given a sleeping pill. They also said his death was a mystery to them. WTF?

Real doctors reject the claim that a sleeping pill could have given him botulism and his parents believe that he was "brutalized and terrorized" while imprisoned.

The foreign ministry mystery man doesn't talk about the cause of Warmbier's coma and says any speculation of torture or abuse is "groundless." Because if the foreign ministry mystery man didn't say that, he too would be brutalized and terrorized and then finally demised. Kim Jong Un is a crazy scum toad.

"To make it clear, we are the biggest victim of this incident and there would be no more foolish judgment than to think we do not know how to calculate gains and losses," the statement read. "The smear campaign against (North Korea) staged in the U.S. compels us to make firm determination that humanitarianism and benevolence for the enemy are taboo and we should further sharpen the blade of law."

What horse crap.

The biggest victim of this incident is Otto Warmbier. 

Period.

There remains three American citizens--all ethnic Koreans--being detained in the North. The State Department strongly discourages travel to North Korea and is considering a full travel ban for U.S. citizens who are crazy enough to want to go there.


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Otto Warmbier dead! Trump has harsh words

President Trump condemned North Korea's horribly "brutal regime" Monday after learning of the death of college student Otto Warmbier. He spent 17 months in a North Korean prison for allegedly taking a communist propaganda poster as he was preparing to return to the US.

Warmbier was released by the hermit nation last week and appeared to be incoherent.

"Lots of bad things happened," Trump said at a meeting with technology CEOs, "but at least we got him home to be with his parents."

He died at University of Cincinnati Medical Center, near where he was raised in suburban Wyoming.

In a typical written statement, sounding as if it were written by someone else, Trump said that "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."

Warmbier's family said in a statement that "the awful torturous mistreatment our son received at the hands of the North Koreans" meant that "no other outcome was possible beyond the sad one we experienced today."

Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) said North Korea should be "universally condemned for its abhorrent behavior." He said the family "had to endure more than any family should have to bear."

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) said the North Korean's "despicable actions . . . must be condemned."

I would add: "in the strongest possible terms . . . and let's kill Kim and his generals while we're at it."

Enough with the words of condemnation--let's do something real.


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Rodman ending NoKo visit, vows to return

Pyongyang -- The former NBA star and two-time "Celebrity Apprentice" performer Dennis Rodman is ready to come home after a brief visit to the hermit nation's capital.

As he strutted his stuff to the airport, the flamboyant Rodman promised to return and said this "thoughts and prayers" are with the family of Otto Warmbier, the American student who was imprisoned in North Korea for 17 torturous months. He was released just hours before Rodman touched down there.

U.S. and North Korean officials said Rodman had no role in freeing Warmbier and it was simply a coincidence that he arrived so close to his release. 

In fact, three more American citizens remain in North Korean custody, and although Rodman couldn't help free them, he did get to play basketball with men and women's teams.

The NBA champ also visited the city zoo, met Olympic athletes and presented the country's sports minister with an unsigned copy of "The Art of the Deal" by President Trump. He also gave the sports minister "Where's Waldo" travel edition, both to be passed on to Kim Jong Un, who enjoys finding Waldo and killing his own family with artillery pieces.

Rodman's earlier trips to North Korea generated loads of publicity, especially when he regaled Kim with a rendition of "Happy Birthday" at an exhibition game he arranged with some other former NBA players. During that time there, he suggested that an American missionary was to blame for his own imprisonment in North Korea, for which he later apologized.

U.S. citizens aren't banned from traveling to North Korea, but the U.S. State Department strongly advises against it, and the reason is obvious when you consider what has happened to Otto Warmbier, who is now in a coma with severe brain damage, possibly from torture.




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American Student gets 15 years hard labor in N. Korea

North Korea has sentenced 21-year-old American student Otto Warmbier to 15 years hard labor for crimes against the state.

Warmbier, an Ohio native, attended the University of Virginia and was detained in January for attempting to steal an item with a propaganda slogan from a hotel in Pyongyang. 

Phil Robertson of Human Rights Watch condemned the sentence: "North Korea's sentencing of Otto Warmbier to 15 years hard labor for a college-style prank is outrageous and shocking, and should not be permitted to stand."

Kim Jong Un, Supreme Exalted Divine Leader for Life wanted Warmbier creatively put to death, but thought better of it and decided to lessen the sentence to avoid harsh words from the Obama administration--words that may even include a "red line," and a shaking finger of blame.

In February, Warmbier told a Pyongyang media conference that his crime was "very severe and pre-planned." 

Warmbier was finishing up a 5-day New Year's group tour of North Korea, (because South Korea wasn't cool enough). He was stopped by airport immigration then taken away by government officials, said the tour operator who arranged the trip and wished to remain anonymous as he was not authorized by the bus company to speak truth to power. 

Kim Jong Un bragged that North Korea would soon be testing a nuclear warhead and ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads, thumbing his round, baby-safe nose at the U.N. resolution. Once his country obtained nuclear capabilities, he vowed to creatively kill more tourists for crimes against the state.

This is certainly not the first time North Korea has detained foreigners as it uses high profile visitors to add glitz and glamour to the failed country (Dennis Rodman aside). In 2014, three American detainees were released by North Korea, in spite of President Obama's strongest possible condemnation which was laughed at most vigorously by Kim and his posse.

Former Governor Bill Richardson (D-New Mexico) had previously been involved with the release of detainees from North Korea and met with their U.N. Ambassador on Tuesday regarding the release of Warmbier.

"I urge the humanitarian release of Otto, and they agreed to convey our request," Richardson told the NY Times.

About 6,000 Western tourists visit North Korea annually in order to feel superior to the starving nation. The U.S. and Canada think it's a bad idea and advise against it, but there will never be a shortage of stupid people in the West who just gotta see for themselves.


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Another American taken hostage in N.Korea

Kim Jung Un and his band of loyal sycophants have arrested Otto Warmbier an American university student and is holding him over an undisclosed incident that allegedly occurred at his hotel before he was to board a flight to Beijing.

Warmbier is a University of Virginia student who, according to North Korea, committed a "hostile act" orchestrated by the United States.

CEO of Young Pioneer Tours, Gareth Johnson, confirmed with the AP that Warmbier had been staying at Pyongyang's Yanggako International Hotel and was alone when the alleged incident occurred. The company said in a statement that he was detained at Pyongyang Airport on January 2nd, but no explanation about the hotel incident was provided. 

Perhaps he tried to make off with a Gideon Bible, but I doubt it.

The incident comes just after president Obama agreed to release over $100 billion to another terrorist state, Iran, for the release of four Americans held hostage, and after several more Americans were kidnapped Baghdad on January 17th.

Now that Obama has changed the policy of not paying ransom, the "sky's the limit" for kidnappings because there's gold in them thar folks.


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