Trump: NK 'excellent' to detainees, Pence hints otherwise
Source: apnews
By MATTHEW LEE, JILL COLVIN and ZEKE MILLER
56 minutes ago
With the former detainees by his side on a dark air base tarmac, Trump called it a “great honor” to welcome the men to the U.S., but said “the true honor is going to be if we have a victory in getting rid of nuclear weapons.”
But while Trump said North Korea’s Kim Jong Un “was excellent to these three incredible people,” Vice President Mike Pence hinted in an ABC interview they had endured harsh conditions.
Pence said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told him that at a refueling stop in Anchorage, “one of the detainees asked to go outside the plane because he hadn’t seen daylight in a very long time.”
Pence, Pompeo, first lady Melania Trump and other top officials joined Trump in the highly scripted celebration in the wee hours of Thursday morning at Joint Base Andrews near Washington. The men — Kim Dong Chul, Kim Hak Song and Tony Kim — had been released Wednesday amid a warming of relations between the longtime adversaries................................
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Goodness, Trump had to stay up late --must have cut into his executive time today??
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JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. (AP) — In a made-for-TV ceremony in the dead of night, President Donald Trump on Thursday welcomed home three Americans freed by North Korea and declared their release a sign of promise toward his goal of denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula.
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