Unlike the president, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) isn’t taking the North Korean leader
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Sunday implicated North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Otto Warmbier’s death, splitting from President Donald Trump’s naive assessment last week of the college student’s killing.
“Look, North Korea murdered Otto,” McCarthy said during an appearance on ABC’s “This Week.” “I think Kim knew what happened, which was wrong.”
Following the failed U. S.-North Korea summit in Vietnam last week, Trump said during a press conference that he believes Kim “felt very badly” about Warmbier, who was imprisoned in North Korea and died after returning home in a vegetative state in 2017.
“Those prisons are rough, they’re rough places and bad things happened,” Trump said. “But I don’t believe he knew about it. He tells me he didn’t know about it and I will take him at his word.
