President Trump on Friday said the United States did not pay North Korea any amount of money for the return of Otto Warmbier.
North Korea, The Washington Post reported on Thursday, presented the U.S. in 2017 with a $2 million bill for Warmbier's hospital care after a State Department official went to retrieve the detained American student. Warmbier had been comatose for 15 months by then and died shortly after returning to the United States.
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