‘We’re Doing OK’: Otto Warmbier’s Father Speaks To Tucker Carlson About Bittersweet Homecoming

Tucker Carlson sat down with Fred Warmbier, father of Otto Warmbier who was just came back home after being in prison in North Korea for 18 months.

Warmbier expressed gratitude to Joe Yun, the State Department’s Representative for North Korea policy, as well as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and President Trump for help bringing his son home. He told Carlson that the efforts to bring him home began a couple months back when he was contacted by Yun.

When asked why this all happened, Warmbier said that Otto was “in the wrong place,” but then called North Korea  a “rogue, pariah regime.”

“They’re terrorists. They’re brutal,” he added.

Carlson asked how the family was holding up.

“We’re doing OK,” Warmbier responded. “I worry about Cindy [Warmbier] a little bit.  I think she worries about me.  We’re taking it a moment at a time, a day at a time.  And we’re going to support each other like we agreed to do all this.  And we’re adjusting right now.  We’re adjusting to a different reality.”

Otto Warmbier’s doctors gave a press conference earlier today on his condition, stating that he “had extensive loss of brain tissue in all regions of the brain.”

Warmbier said he is “fortunate” to “live in an amazing community, people that support us and love and care for us.”

Before wrapping up the interview, Carlson asked Warmbier if he had any advice for the other three families who have a loved one imprisoned in North Korea.

“No, I would not,” Warmbier answered. “I can’t recommend any — I can’t — I don’t know what to say. I wouldn’t know what to say to them.  I’m — they can use us as an example and they can make their own decisions.”

At the end of the segment, Warmbier showed Carlson his son’s bedroom with the belongings he had with him in North Korea spread on the bed.

Watch the clip above, via Fox News.

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