IF THERE WAS AN AGREEMENT, MAYBE WE DO OWE NORTH KOREA $2 MILLION

John Bolton says Trump's negotiator DID agree to pay North Korea $2 million to get prisoner Otto Warmbier released before he died from his brutal treatment – but the United States never paid up

Daily Mail
April 28, 2019

National Security Advisor John Bolton confirmed Sunday that the Trump administration agreed to pay the North Korean regime $2 million as part of a deal to secure the release of American prisoner Otto Warmbier, but never paid the bill.

President Donald Trump denied Friday morning in a tweet that his administration paid the totalitarian country a reported ransom in 2017. The president did not, however, address a report about the $2 million invoice for Warmbier's medical care.

'No money was paid to North Korea for Otto Warmbier, not two Million Dollars, not anything else,' Trump wrote Friday.

But when 'Fox News Sunday' host Chris Wallace asked Bolton if Trump's negotiator, Joseph Yun, and his team agreed to pay, he responded, 'It appears that they did.'

The agreement was inked before Bolton joined the administration, he said. Bolton emphasized that the U.S. never paid a dime.

EDITOR’S NOTE: We should charge North Korea for Warmbier’s transportation back to the U.S., his hospital costs here and his subsequent funeral costs. That should reduce the North Korean bill by more than a half.