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brooklynite

(94,489 posts)
Tue May 8, 2018, 10:19 PM May 2018

Pompeo to return from North Korea with 3 US captives: South Korea

Source: The Hill

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will return from North Korea with three U.S. citizens currently imprisoned in the country, according to a South Korean official.

The official told South Korea's Yonhap News Agency that Pompeo was expected to secure the release of three prisoners being held by the country: Kim Dong Chul, Kim Sang Duk and Kim Hak Song. In addition, Pompeo is expected to return with the time and date of the proposed meeting between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

"We expect him to bring the date, time and the captives," the unnamed official told Yonhap.

Pompeo arrived in the country Wednesday morning local time, as Trump told reporters that he hoped a deal could be reached to secure lasting peace with North Korea after months of escalating tensions over the country's nuclear missile program.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/international/386841-pompeo-to-return-from-north-korea-with-3-us-captives-south-korean

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RockRaven

(14,958 posts)
1. I will, in a tyrannical and unjust fashion, imprison 3 people
Tue May 8, 2018, 10:24 PM
May 2018

then when I turn them over to you, I'll appear magnanimous, you will appear savvy, whaddya say?

bucolic_frolic

(43,123 posts)
3. Theater
Tue May 8, 2018, 10:31 PM
May 2018

Behind the scenes, private interest deals are being cut. No one gets something for nothing. Fear is not a motivating factor here because the bombast and testing was all theater all along. Obviously no one was going to nuke anyone.

keithbvadu2

(36,747 posts)
4. Trump spreads fake news about Obama as he teases North Korean prisoner release
Tue May 8, 2018, 10:38 PM
May 2018
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/3/1761690/-Trump-spreads-fake-news-about-Obama-as-he-teases-North-Korean-prisoner-release

Trump spreads fake news about Obama as he teases North Korean prisoner release

"Kim Dong Chul has been in North Korean custody since before Trump was elected, and the other two detainees were arrested last spring, after Trump's inauguration and as tensions between Washington and Pyongyang were beginning to ramp up.

Boy, even President Obama’s biggest fans probably didn’t know he was so amazing he could be asking for the release of people who hadn’t even been detained yet."

Grassy Knoll

(10,118 posts)
6. With Breitbart Fuck Pig Gone, Who Is Feeding DonIdoit BS....
Tue May 8, 2018, 10:58 PM
May 2018

...Or Is StupidPrez Winging It Cause Obama Will Always
Be A Superior President That Never Had Indictments Against Him Or His Team ?

Chicago1980

(1,968 posts)
7. I was an infant with the hostages were released after the Reagan/Carter election...
Tue May 8, 2018, 11:42 PM
May 2018

Why does this stink of that manipulative behavior?

LudwigPastorius

(9,130 posts)
9. I said it before, and I'll say it again,...
Wed May 9, 2018, 12:22 AM
May 2018

Trump has already covertly promised Kim (through Pompeo) that he's going to pull U.S. troops out of South Korea.

He's giving up the national security of the ROK (and Japan) just to score some personal political points.

...but, the Don has always been about throwing a friend to the wolves if it gets him something in return.
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