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Trump Believes North Korean Leader Not Involved In Otto Warmbier's Mistreatment

cnn.com

President Trump says he doesn't think North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was involved in the mistreatment of Otto Warmbier, the college student from Ohio who died after being detained in that country. 

Warmbier was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in 2016 on suspicion of stealing a propaganda poster. He died in June 2017, shortly after being sent home in a coma. His parents say he was tortured.

Trump has taken credit for freeing American prisoners abroad and used Warmbier's death as a rallying cry against the North's human rights abuses before softening his rhetoric ahead of talks with Kim.

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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