Posted on 04/25/2019 5:45:37 PM PDT by Kaslin
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un sent the United States a hospital bill for Otto Warmbier, the young American college student who was tortured to death by the regime.
According to reporting from Fox News, the bill was never paid.
The U.S. received a $2 million hospital bill from the North Korean government for the care of American Otto Warmbier, who fell into a coma for unknown reasons while he was imprisoned in the country before he died in the U.S. in 2017, Fox News has confirmed.
Pyongyang authorities insisted the U.S. envoy sent to retrieve the University of Virginia student sign a pledge to pay the bill before allowing Warmbier’s comatose body to return to the United States, the Washington Post reported Thursday. Sources familiar with the matter confirmed the bill and the amount to Fox News.
Citing two people familiar with the situation, the Post reported the envoy signed an agreement to pay the medical bill on instructions from President Trump. However, a source told Fox News the U.S. did not pay money to North Korea.
Warmbier was arrested by North Korean authorities in January 2016 for allegedly stealing a propaganda poster. He was returned to the United States in June 2017. He was in a vegetative state with severe brain damage and died days after his arrival.
The North Korean government claims Warmbier slipped into a coma after taking a sleeping pill and suffering from botulism. Doctors said their tests do not reveal any evidence botulism was a factor.
"No evidence of botulism," Dr. Brandon Foreman said.
Doctors said they have very limited information about Warmbier's condition before his arrival in the United States and have not had any contact with North Korean medical officials. It is estimated he has been in a coma since April of 2016. They said there is evidence Warmbier suffered a respiratory arrest, which led to a lack of oxygen to the brain. This could have been caused by a traumatic injury or an overdose in medication.
Send the bill back glued tightly to a JDAM. Certified delivery.
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PING!
Trump should tell lIttle Kim to make a suppository of the bill
Looks like Kim believes what he sees on the US Newscasts. You watch those and you will think Trump is finished so Kim is hanging with Putin now.
MSM are nothing but a pack of traitors. I despise the lot of em and that includes many people on FNC.
North Korea reminds me of Hillary Clinton..they truly have a lot of chutzpah don’t they..they kill him now they want to get paid to “take care of him medically” here you have Hillary Clinton, scandals up the wazoo, yet she goes on TV and has the gall to trash President Trump
the commie media have always been traitors..they rather see America fail than have President Trump succeed..they hate him that much, but honestly, the media hates America more..they truly despise everything about this country..so tell me again how we are supposed to co exist with these people
Send them back a 50 million dollar law suit for wrongful death.
We didn’t pay, just signed a paper saying we will but Trump didn’t send them a dime.
Looks like L’l Kim has a gas problem with what he eats.
That’s what you get for single payer.
Why did they wait so long to release this? What is up with the timing?
..... It’s Kim’s way of giving Trump the finger while he talks to Putin .....
ObamaCare light. If you don’t want your physician you will keep your physician. Non-existing conditions are covered.
Kim is poking the bear. Not smart. Why is he being so provocative?
Send him just one of those crazy Zimbabwe trillion notes.
Make payment through United Healthcare. Kim will be lucky to get $20.
Other people’s mileage maybe different than mine—and many others out there as well—but now honestly, I could NEVER be a “friend” to any leader or member of this horrid, 70-year-old criminal and illegitimate enterprise otherwise known as “North Korea” and the “Korean Workers Party.”
I saw where Nostradamus predicts Korea completely destroyed in the 2000s, but doesnt say WHO destroyed it.
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