The parents of Otto Warmbier directly blamed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for their son’s death and blasted his “evil regime” – a day after President Trump said he did not believe the dictator knew about the college student’s torture.

“We have been respectful during this summit process. Now we must speak out. Kim and his evil regime are responsible for the death of our son Otto,” Fred and Cindy Warmbier said in a scathing statement that rebuked Trump’s assertion.

“Kim and his evil regime are responsible for unimaginable cruelty and inhumanity. No excuses or lavish praise can change that,” added the couple, who were Trump’s guests at his 2018 State of the Union address.

The president drew criticism Thursday when he praised Kim’s leadership and said he believed the despot’s claims that he was unaware of how the 22-year-old college student from Ohio had been treated in a North Korean prison.

“Some really bad things happened to Otto — some really, really bad things. But he tells me that he didn’t know about it, and I will take him at his word,” Trump said during a press conference after his summit with Kim broke down.

“I really don’t think it was in his interest at all,” he said, adding that Kim felt “very badly” about the young man’s death.

New York Sen. Chuck Schumer took the president to task over his comments.

“President @realDonaldTrump is once again simply deciding to take a cruel and brutal dictator at his word. He owes Otto Warmbier’s parents an apology. Now,” Schumer said in a tweet Friday.

The University of Virginia student was arrested in January 2016 for allegedly stealing a propaganda poster while he was visiting Pyongyang with other Americans on a tour.

He was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor, but was released after 17 months.

The Trump administration arranged Warmbier’s transfer out of the country, but he died about a week later after falling into a vegetative state.

US doctors said he had suffered severe brain damage, although they weren’t sure what led to it. North Korea, which denied mistreating him, said he fell into a coma that resulted from botulism and a sleeping pill.

On Friday, White House adviser Kellyanne Conway said the president does hold North Korea responsible for Warmbier’s death.

“The president agrees with the Warmbier family and holds North Korea responsible for Otto Warmbier’s death,” Conway told Fox News, saying she had just spoken to Trump about the matter.

But she stopped short of laying blame on the leader of the rogue regime.

“What he said was that Chairman Kim says, what he believes Chairman Kim to have said, was that he was not aware of what had happened to Otto Warmbier when it happened,” she told the network.

In December, a federal judge ordered Pyongyang to pay more than $500 million in a wrongful-death suit filed by Warmbier’s parents.

US District Judge Beryl Howell harshly condemned the hermit kingdom for its “barbaric mistreatment” of their son.

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