Now, during the same interview with Fox News on Sunday,... U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton insisted that the U.S. did not pay North Korea for the release of Otto Warmbier.
Asked whether Washington had signed an agreement to pay the regime for Warmbier's medical care,... Bolton said,.... that's what he was told,... but said, the U.S. never sent the money.
U.S. President Donald Trump also tweeted last Friday that no money was paid.
The Washington Post reported last week that the U.S. signed a two million dollar medical bill that Pyeongyang had presented.
Warmbier was seized from a tour group while visiting North Korea in January of 2016 and was convicted on charges of trying to steal a propaganda poster and sentenced to 15 years of hard labor.
Then in 2017 he was returned home in a coma and died just a matter of days after.
