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Title: Did the US pay $2M for Otto Warmbier release?
Post by: corbe on April 28, 2019, 10:47:16 pm

U.S. Agreed to Pay North Korea for Warmbier But Didn’t, Bolton Says

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American student Otto Warmbier, center, arrives at the People's Cultural House, as Warmbier is presented to reporters Monday, Feb. 29, 2016, in Pyongyang, North Korea.© Kim Kwang Hyon/ AP Photo

(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. signed a document pledging to pay North Korea $2 million for the medical care of American student Otto Warmbier in return for his release but didn’t follow through, National Security Adviser John Bolton said Sunday.

“That’s what I am told,” Bolton told correspondent Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday” when asked whether the U.S. had signed the agreement, which would have occurred before Bolton joined the Trump administration in 2018. “No money was paid. That is clear.”

Warmbier, a University of Virginia student who was arrested for pulling down a sign in Pyongyang in January 2016, was sentenced to 15 years in prison. North Korea released Warmbier to the U.S. in 2017, at which point he was in a coma. He died days later.

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Title: Re: Did the US pay $2M for Otto Warmbier release?
Post by: EdJames on April 28, 2019, 10:50:25 pm

Not sure that we will ever know for sure (unless you are a hairdresser).

Title: Re: Did the US pay $2M for Otto Warmbier release?
Post by: corbe on April 28, 2019, 10:51:07 pm

   I'd love to think NO, but this Administration doesn't even think twice about lying to me, as all the others have in the past.

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Title: Re: Did the US pay $2M for Otto Warmbier release?
Post by: TomSea on April 28, 2019, 10:59:44 pm

Only because John Bolton said we didn't, I suppose, I believe that. So, No.


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