Otto Warmbier would have been 26 years old Saturday.
It has been more than three years since Otto was returned home by North Korea and succumbed to his injuries inflicted at the hands of Kim Jong Un s regime.
Otto was a 22-year-old University of Virginia student from Ohio when he was falsely arrested in North Korea in 2016, while on an youth educational tour of the country. He was imprisoned for just over 18 months and in that time officials say he was tortured, left in a vegetative state with severe brain damage.
He died in a Cincinnati hospital in June 2017, just days after he arrived back home.
with the parents of otto warmbier. he was held captive by north korea for a year. he was in a vegetative state when he was released. and he died from what doctors said was severe brain damage. the white house confirming the death of bin laden s son hansa. the white house said he was killed in the stack and-afghanistan region. reporter: the white house did not say when or where the operation or killing took place. it says he was killed in a united states counter-terrorism operation in the afghanistan-pakistan region.
implementation of the declaration. jillian: major news, his story on the korean peninsula. south korean pres. moon and north korean dictator kim jong un vowing to end the korean war during peace talks at the dnc. rob: the two leaders did not outline specific steps toward a nuclear free peninsula. this comes ahead of the planned north korea summit with the us and donald trump meeting with kim jong un. we will keep you posted on all this as a development. the parents of an american student in prison in north korea sent back home to die are suing that regime. cindy and fred warmbier said north korea tortured and killed their son otto. he was in prison for more than a year before the country sent him home with severe brain damage and days later otto
olympic stage with the same honors at any other world leaders. the south koreans and north koreans appeared to have moved closer together, and the united states agreed not to hold military drills during the olympics, and we had almost no mention of the fact that north korea is a rogue regime pursuing multiple illegal programs throughout the course of the olympics. i think part of the diplomatic breakthrough, as we re calling it, is motivated by the fact that the dynamics shiftsed. i think that kim jong un at this point is holding more of the cards than he did several months ago. a couple things in response. first of all, vice president pence repeatedly highlighted the brutality of the north korean regime. it was his theme throughout the trip, meeting with defectors but it was not picked up by the press. he met with fred warmbier. he tried his best, but it s not
have to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. you can say in the same breath that kim jong-un is a brutal dictator but also say it s a good idea for north and south korea to start talking to each other. that s part of the policy that we ve had for 40 years. and wendy, you ve been to pyongyang. you ve stared them in the face. we are not oblivious to all the human rights abuses. probably a good thing that fred warmbier went with the vice president to make that point because they were concerned about the public relations advantages that the north koreans were enjoying at these olympics. indeed. we all are worried about it. i agree with rick, you have to walk and chew gum and run and brush your hair at the same time. it s many things simultaneously. and i think, you know, it was good that fred warmbier went, but i think there should have been an opportunity where the vice president at least acknowledged the people of north korea. we want to be on their side. we think that the