“He tells me he didn't know about it, and I take him at his word,” Trump said. In this March 16, 2016, file photo, American student Otto Warmbier is escorted at the Supreme Court in Pyongyang, North Korea. He has downplayed human rights abuses in North Korea and has infrequently brought up Warmbier’s death. A lot of people started to focus on what was going on, including North Korea. “You've got a lot of people,” Trump said of North Korea during Thursday’s news conference.

Source: Washington Post February 28, 2019 11:28 UTC