Headline Roundup • April 26th, 2019
Trump Denies Paying Money To North Korea For Otto Warmbier
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Washington Post
President Trump said Friday that the United States did not pay any money to North Korea, which had issued a $2 million bill for the hospice care of American Otto Warmbier, the comatose University of Virginia student sent home from Pyongyang in 2017.
“No money was paid to North Korea for Otto Warmbier, not two Million Dollars, not anything else,” Trump said in a morning tweet in which he suggested he has taken a different approach to hostage negotiations than his predecessor.
Trump reiterated the point two hours later as...
BBC News
President Trump has denied paying North Korea money for the medical care of comatose US student Otto Warmbier.
Warmbier was jailed in North Korea in 2015 during an organised tour and died after being returned to the US in a coma after 17 months in detention.
Earlier reports said that the US had been billed $2m (£1.5m) for the student's medical care.
North Korea had allegedly demanded the bill be paid before he was allowed to return home.
Mr Trump denied the claim on Twitter on Friday. He wrote: "No...
Fox News Digital
President Trump on Friday said “no money” was paid to North Korea for Otto Warmbier, after reports that the U.S. received a $2 million hospital bill from Pyongyang for the late American prisoner’s care.
“No money was paid to North Korea for Otto Warmbier, not two Million Dollars, not anything else. This is not the Obama Administration that paid 1.8 Billion Dollars for four hostages, or gave five terroist[sic] hostages plus, who soon went back to battle, for traitor Sgt. Bergdahl!” Trump tweeted Friday.
The Washington Post first reported that...
