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President Trump: We Will Handle North Korea For What They Did To Otto Warmbier
Townhall.com ^ | June 20, 2017 | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 06/20/2017 8:35:29 AM PDT by Kaslin

When 22-year-old American student Otto Warmbier was released from North Korean captivity last week after being held as a war criminal for 17-months, his family praised President Trump for getting him out.

"When Otto was first taken we were advised by the past administration to take a low profile while they worked to obtain his release. We did so without result," Otto's father, Fred Warmbier, said during a press conference in Ohio last week. "Earlier this year, Cindy and I decided the time for strategic patience was over. It is my understanding that Ambassador Yun and his team, at the direction of the president, aggressively pursued resolution of the situation."

"I think the results speak for themselves," he continued.

Speaking from the White House Monday night, President Trump announced Otto had died after coming home from North Korea in a coma. The regime claims he went into a coma after taking a sleeping pill and experiencing botulism. American doctors who examined him upon arrival said there was no evidence of those claims and that Otto had suffered severe brain damage, possibly due to a traumatic injury.

“I just want to pass on the word that Otto Warmbier has just passed away. He spent a year and a half in North Korea. A lot of bad things happened," Trump said. "But at least we got him home to be with his parents where they were so happy to see him even though he was in very tough condition. But he just passed away a little while ago."

He also implied there will be consequences for what the regime has done.

"It is a brutal regime and we’ll be able to handle it,” he continued.

Warmbier's parents describe Otto's captivity as brutal and extremely inhumane. The North Korean regime is still holding three American citizens hostage

"On behalf of the entire State Department and the United States government, I extend my condolences to the Warmbier family, and offer my prayers as they enter a time of grief no parent should ever know," Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in a statement. "We hold North Korea accountable for Otto Warmbier’s unjust imprisonment, and demand the release of three other Americans who have been illegally detained."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: hostages; kimjongun; northkorea; ottowarmbier; presidenttrump; retaliation; second100days; trump45
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1 posted on 06/20/2017 8:35:30 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
The headline is NOT what Trump expressed.

BNut more importantly, let's get the other three out of there.

2 posted on 06/20/2017 8:38:34 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Kaslin

The high NK elite have kids studying at cushy academies overseas.

Ya know..?

I’m pretty sure not all of them always obey all laws.


3 posted on 06/20/2017 8:38:48 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: Kaslin

What, no long-winded speeches about “not getting on our high horse”?


4 posted on 06/20/2017 8:39:37 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Kaslin
Clearly, it would be inappropriate to say, "Nuke the bastards" over the death of one individual.

Yet, I say, nuke the bastards.

5 posted on 06/20/2017 8:40:22 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Battleships confide in me and tell me where you are...)
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To: Blue Jays

My anticipation is this will likely blow-over in two weeks and nothing will happen.

6 posted on 06/20/2017 8:44:59 AM PDT by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

A targeted attack is eminently doable.


7 posted on 06/20/2017 8:45:44 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: Kaslin

This is the best time to blow them up. If they retaliate against the South, it deserves it for electing a socialist clown.


8 posted on 06/20/2017 8:47:19 AM PDT by ZULU (DUMP THAT POS PAUL RYAN!! KIM FATTY the THIRD)
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To: Kaslin
"When Otto was first taken we were advised by the past administration to take a low profile while they worked to obtain his release. We did so without result,"

So in other words the bowing faggot told the family to shut the hell up and went back to his #1 priority - getting terrorists released from Gitmo.

9 posted on 06/20/2017 8:47:21 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hillary Clinton IS a felon)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

...and into the USA.


10 posted on 06/20/2017 8:52:29 AM PDT by CygnusXI
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To: Kaslin

Two places to not visit: NK and Iran.

What did he expect?


11 posted on 06/20/2017 8:52:57 AM PDT by sickoflibs (Message to Trump : I am not tired of winning yet. Please more winning ! Get your crap together fast!)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
So in other words the bowing faggot told the family to shut the hell up and went back to his #1 priority - getting terrorists released from Gitmo.

You've summed it up very nicely.

12 posted on 06/20/2017 8:53:03 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: Kaslin

Send a Boomer out off the coast and hit that fat little turd with a cruise missile up his fat be-hind! Paint Obama’s turd face on the missile’s head, so he can go right up the fat little turd’s A-hole where he has been for 8 years.


13 posted on 06/20/2017 8:53:17 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (Believe or not, we R in the Last Days of human history. Jesus is coming back, & soon! RU saved?)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

And here I thought his #1 priority was getting men in the ladies room...


14 posted on 06/20/2017 8:53:44 AM PDT by mom4melody (,)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Im not too familiar with the tech we got today, but I assume it is possible now that they could zero in on fat boy Jung Un from sattelite when he steps outside and MOAB his ass? I wonder what would happen if we did that, would it be like cutting the strings from a puppet? Would they be confused as what to do without the “Dear leader” or does fat boy have a chain of command set up?


15 posted on 06/20/2017 8:54:21 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hillary Clinton IS a felon)
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To: Kaslin

They probably gave him a shot before sending him back to US. Poor boy. :-(


16 posted on 06/20/2017 8:58:45 AM PDT by freemarket101
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To: Blue Jays

Not this time


17 posted on 06/20/2017 8:58:50 AM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ("Washington, DC. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious")
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To: mom4melody

Holy cow, you are right, I forgot about that. That WAS something the left never shut up about. This kid is getting tortured, getting his brain destroyed in a Nortj Korean prison and Obama is demanding men wearing dresses can use to ladies room.


18 posted on 06/20/2017 8:59:42 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hillary Clinton IS a felon)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

I really think we could get away with it. China is fed up with this fat bastard, so is Putin and if we hit them right it would cripple their whole chain of command basically neutralizing the whole country, putting it in a state of anarchy where we could move in with ground troops. Of course then there is the radiation problem.


19 posted on 06/20/2017 9:03:24 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hillary Clinton IS a felon)
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To: Hoosier-Daddy

I’m thinking there might be a nice covert retaliation?


20 posted on 06/20/2017 9:06:16 AM PDT by varina davis (WHOEVER TELLS IT LIKE IT IS FOR 2016)
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