Otto Warmbier’s mother says North Korea ‘a cancer on earth’, calls diplomacy a ‘charade’

[TomSea]

Otto Warmbier’s mother says North Korea ‘a cancer on earth’, calls diplomacy a ‘charade’
Kathleen Joyce

Cindy Warmbier, the mother of student Otto Warmbier, who died in the U.S. in 2017 after being detained and held in North Korea for 17 months, called the hermit kingdom “a cancer on the earth.”

Warmbier appeared at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., Friday which hosted the “Seminar on the North Korean Abductions Issue.” She hosted the seminar with other families of those who have been abducted.

“He was a great student, fabulous son, great brother, lots of friends,” she said of her late son, who was in his third year at the University of Virginia.

Read more at: https://www.foxnews.com/world/otto-warmbiers-mother-north-korea-cancer-on-earth-diplomacy-charade

Hudson Institute: https://www.hudson.org/

She spoke at the Hudson Institute:

She is a listed speaker and it looks like there is accompanying video. Maybe the speech is on there. https://www.hudson.org/events/1683-seminar-on-the-north-korean-abductions-issue52019


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Even the quotes in the article are heartbreaking to read.  2 hour video, she's probably on there. Surely worth a watch.

[sneakypete]

“He was a great student, fabulous son, great brother, lots of friends,” she said of her late son, who was in his third year at the University of Virginia.

Wasn't he also the thief that was into vandalism? Guess what,bitch? When you go visit a foreign country,you come under their legal system. If you can't do the time,don't do the crime.

[Fishrrman]

Cindy Warmbier, the mother of student Otto Warmbier, who died in the U.S. in 2017 after being detained and held in North Korea for 17 months, called the hermit kingdom “a cancer on the earth.”

I think she said it about right...
(I realize the son Otto made a serious mistake, also)

[TomSea]

Wasn't he also the thief that was into vandalism? Guess what,bitch? When you go visit a foreign country,you come under their legal system. If you can't do the time,don't do the crime.

Fox News even reported that may not have been true, that Warmbier tore a poster down.  So, IOW, we don't know for sure. The Fox reporter went so far as to say he did not do that.

.. But it's an open question whether Otto Warmbier did what North Korea accused him of doing. One woman who was with him on the trip, Danish journalist Ria Westergaard Pedersen, doesn't seem to believe it.

Warmbier, a student at the University of Virginia, was convicted and imprisoned in North Korea for 17 months for trying to steal a propaganda poster from a hotel in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, something he admitted to in a statement prior to his imprisonment. Given the intense brutality of the North Korean state, however ― it is considered one of the most repressive authoritarian nations on Earth, rife with intimidation, torture, and a network of officially secret concentration camps ― many say the confession was coerced.

In a recent interview with BBC News, Pedersen said Warmbier, who was imprisoned for 17 months before being released back to the United States, where he died six days later, had been extremely cautious about even taking a photo that might have violated rules against it, so she has a hard time believing he would've so brazenly risked his freedom, as the government claimed.

https://www.bustle.com/p/a-journalist-from-otto-warmbiers-north-korea-tour-speaks-out-65909

The above is just an example of what is out there and not the final word. I just did a quick search.

At the least, an open question. The Fox report was posted in this forum in the last month.

@sneakypete