Mother of Otto Warmbier calls U.S. diplomacy with North Korea a 'charade'

[hlthe2b]

(This was from May, but I missed it)



https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mother-of-otto-warmbier-calls-us-diplomacy-with-north-korea-a-charade/2019/05/03/4cb64ace-6ddb-11e9-a66d-a82d3f3d96d5_story.html?utm_term=.469b9716851b

The mother of Otto Warmbier on Friday criticized the Trump administration’s diplomatic outreach to North Korea as a “charade” and blasted dictator Kim Jong Un’s regime as “absolute evil” in the family’s first public comments on the stalled negotiations.

During remarks in Washington, Cindy Warmbier, whose son died in 2017 just days after he was released, in a coma, from 17 months in captivity in North Korea, also compared Kim to Adolf Hitler, saying that the only difference is that Kim brutalizes “all of his people.”

“There’s a charade going on right now. It’s called diplomacy,” Warmbier said during a Hudson Institute seminar. Of Kim, she added: “How can you have diplomacy with someone who never tells the truth? I’m all for it, but I’m very skeptical. He lies, he lies, he lies — all for himself and his regime.”

Her remarks came at a sensitive moment, as there has been little communication between Washington and Pyongyang since the collapse of a leaders’ nuclear summit in Hanoi in late February, where President Trump and Kim walked away after failing to reach an agreement on denuclearization.

At a news conference in Hanoi, Trump told reporters that he had raised the issue of Otto Warmbier’s death at the summit and believed Kim’s denial that he was unaware of the circumstances of his mistreatment. That prompted Cindy Warmbier and her husband, Fred, to issue a statement holding Kim accountable and saying that “no excuse or lavish praise can change that,” an implicit rebuke of the president.

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[spanone]

1. The 'president' fell in love with the guy who killed her son...I can't imagine.

[tulipsandroses]

2. It must have been incredibly sad and hurtful for her to see that yesterday

Trump is such a small man. He has no idea what it means to be a patriot, to serve his country. It was so very telling that he does not know what Liberalism means. Just think how scary and awful that is.

[Rhiannon12866]

5. How horrible for his parents

And here we thought that we were offended.

[rufus dog]

3. You missed it because it is against tRump

Had it been a Dem President she would have led the evening news with her story.

[customerserviceguy]

4. I wonder if she

and Otto's father realize that they've been played as pawns?

[Vinca]

6. Except it's not even diplomacy. It's a photo op for Donald Trump to make him appear to be something

he is not. He doesn't give a shit about Kim or North Korea. He doesn't give a shit about nuclear weapons. He's inconvenienced by having to travel so far for the photo op. The only thing he cares about is getting a Nobel prize because Obama got one. Even better, Trump wants two of them. I feel sorry for the Warmbier family. They were stage props and that's about it.

[obamanut2012]

7. They were huge TRumpsters who attacked Obama

For "not saving their son," and kissed Trump's ass before and after Otto was released.

NOW they see why you don't meet with dictators, and why Obama's Swedish and Chinese liaisons were dealing with ROK.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. She spoke at an event for a conservative think-tank, echoing an idea that neocons love no matter who

is president: That diplomacy is useless, a "charade" for softies who would rather talk than fight. She is a mother in mourning who is being used, and it's sad to see, even if a person agrees with what she says.