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LEAKED: Trump Sent Plane To Bring Home Otto Warmbier Without Asking North Korea's Permission
"When Trump learned of Otto's condition, he doubled down on the order for Yun to rush to Pyongyang and bring Otto home," says the report. "The North Koreans were unilaterally informed that an American plane would soon land in Pyongyang and that United States diplomats and doctors would get off."
An anonymous State Department official said the president sounded like a "dad" when learning of the news. He was determined to retrieve Warmbier and bring him back to his parents as soon as humanly possible.
"The president was very invested in bringing Otto home," the official told GQ. "Listening to him deliberate on this, he sounded to me a lot more like a dad."
But, of course, there was risk involved. "We were very scared," said the official. As noted in the report, "though the North Koreans eventually said the plane would be able to land, no one knew what kind of welcome the Americans would receive on the ground."
