WASHINGTON — North Korea has released Otto Warmbier, an American serving a 15-year prison term with hard labor for alleged anti-state acts, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Tuesday in an announcement that came as former NBA player Dennis Rodman was paying a return visit to Pyongyang.
“At the direction of the President, the Department of State has secured the release of Otto Warmbier from North Korea,” Tillerson said in a statement. “Mr. Warmbier is en route to the U.S. where he will be reunited with his family.”
Article Here.
Good on you, Trump Administration. :applaud
Hopefully they can help release more jailed American citizens from NK in the near future.
Article Here.
Good on you, Trump Administration. :applaud
Hopefully they can help release more jailed American citizens from NK in the near future.
I'm sorry but if you are an American and you willingly go a country like North Korea or any other country that hates our guts and you are not on US government business then you deserve to be stuck there. Trump shouldn't have done anything. Because its not like people didn't know that North Korea kidnaps people or that North Korea imprisons people on phony charges. I am pretty sure that every travel agency probably warned this person and every other dumb**** that could happen to them. Its just smart as a former Muslim visiting relatives in a hard core Muslim country or a black man going to a KKK rally in the middle of nowhere by himself or Donald Trump supporter by him or herself walking into a middle of a ANTIFA rally.
Doesn't this mean that there's a US NK dialogue going on? A small success step forward, with perhaps more larger ones to follow? Almost too much to hope for.Article Here.
Good on you, Trump Administration. :applaud
Hopefully they can help release more jailed American citizens from NK in the near future.
Doesn't this mean that there's a US NK dialogue going on? A small success step forward, with perhaps more larger ones to follow? Almost too much to hope for.
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If this article is true NK release of Otto is so they won't have the death of the student on their hands.
TOKYO — University of Virginia student Otto Warmbier has been medically evacuated from North Korea in a coma after being detained for 17 months, his parents told The Washington Post on Tuesday.
Warmbier, 22, is due to arrive home in Cincinnati on Tuesday evening, after a stop at a U.S. military facility in Sapporo, Japan.
The family said they were told by North Korean officials — through contacts with American envoys — that Warmbier fell ill from botulism sometime after his March trial and fell into a coma after taking a sleeping pill. The Warmbiers said they were told their son has remained in a coma since then.
There was no immediate confirmation from U.S. officials of North Korea’s version of events — notably whether Warmbier was stricken with botulism, a potentially fatal illness that is caused by a toxin but is not usually associated with loss of consciousness.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...611861a988f_story.html?utm_term=.241064a73301
If this article is true NK release of Otto is so they won't have the death of the student on their hands.
TOKYO — University of Virginia student Otto Warmbier has been medically evacuated from North Korea in a coma after being detained for 17 months, his parents told The Washington Post on Tuesday.
Warmbier, 22, is due to arrive home in Cincinnati on Tuesday evening, after a stop at a U.S. military facility in Sapporo, Japan.
The family said they were told by North Korean officials — through contacts with American envoys — that Warmbier fell ill from botulism sometime after his March trial and fell into a coma after taking a sleeping pill. The Warmbiers said they were told their son has remained in a coma since then.
There was no immediate confirmation from U.S. officials of North Korea’s version of events — notably whether Warmbier was stricken with botulism, a potentially fatal illness that is caused by a toxin but is not usually associated with loss of consciousness.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...611861a988f_story.html?utm_term=.241064a73301
Yeah, this. :yt
I don't think it's got squat to do with Trump.
Agree. Nor does it have anything to do with Rodman visiting NK.
Thank you for posting this.
Your welcome.
imo, the release is more to do with NK does not want to risk having Otto die while being held than any political efforts done my the Administration or Rodman.
The coma part of this story leaves much to my imagination.
Otto Warmbier made a mistake in judgment clearly out of naivety. JamesRage and Erod's apparent lack of compassion speaks volumes. I would never knowingly choose either one of them as a battle mate.
I genuinely hope Otto regains consciousness and some semblance of a normal life. May Prayers and much Love go out in support of Otto!
Article Here.
Good on you, Trump Administration. :applaud
Hopefully they can help release more jailed American citizens from NK in the near future.
Good news. And if Trump's team had anything to do with it then kudos to them. I somehow doubt they were negotiating for his release, though I could easily be wrong. At this moment, my guess is this was more about Kim wanting to make his buddy Rodman look good.
But either Trump or Rodman should get credit. And either of those scenarios is kind of amazing.
Why do I have the sneaking suspicion that Trump is once again taking advantage of another's work?
Trump made it part of his campaign, Americans being held in foreign countries, why is it so hard to believe?
If that guy had a battle buddy then I am sure his battle buddy would call him a dumbass, a retard or something worse for wanting to go to North Korea. This isn't the first time North Korea has kidnapped someone or locked them up on bogus charges.
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