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Title: Three American Hostages on their way home with SOS Pompeo
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on May 09, 2018, 12:42:27 pm: Three American Hostages on their way home with SOS Pompeo
Twitter, May 9, 2018, President Donald Trump

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Donald J. Trump
ï€²Verified accountï‚™ @realDonaldTrump

I am pleased to inform you that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in the air and on his way back from North Korea with the 3 wonderful gentlemen that everyone is looking so forward to meeting. They seem to be in good health. Also, good meeting with Kim Jong Un. Date & Place set.

5:30 AM - 9 May 2018

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/994192995737096192

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Donald J. Trump
ï€²Verified accountï‚™ @realDonaldTrump

Secretary Pompeo and his â€œguestsâ€ will be landing at Andrews Air Force Base at 2:00 A.M. in the morning. I will be there to greet them. Very exciting!

5:35 AM - 9 May 2018

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/994194233111273472
Title: Re: Three American Hostages on their way home with SOS Pompeo
Post by: Frank Cannon on May 09, 2018, 12:43:39 pm: Well. This is some good news.
Title: Re: Three American Hostages on their way home with SOS Pompeo
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on May 09, 2018, 12:58:43 pm: Quote
Trump: Secretary of State Pompeo heading back from North Korea with 3 released prisoners
CNBC, May 9, 2018

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that three American prisoners released from North Korea were headed home, a sign of potential good will ahead of Trump's planned meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

In a tweet, Trump said "the 3 wonderful gentlemen that everyone is looking so forward to meeting" were accompanying Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on his way back from a visit to North Korea.

The news of the release comes as U.S.-North Korea relations have reached a relatively constructive and warm phase. It marks a considerable de-escalation from last year, when Trump and Kim exchanged heated barbs that stoked fears the world was on the brink of nuclear conflict. The North also repeatedly tested missiles and threatened the U.S. territory of Guam in the Pacific Ocean.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/09/trump-secretary-of-state-pompeo-heading-back-from-north-korea-with-3-released-prisoners.html (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/09/trump-secretary-of-state-pompeo-heading-back-from-north-korea-with-3-released-prisoners.html)
Title: Re: Three American Hostages on their way home with SOS Pompeo
Post by: Sanguine on May 09, 2018, 01:58:33 pm: Wonderful news!
Title: Re: Three American Hostages on their way home with SOS Pompeo
Post by: guitar4jesus on May 09, 2018, 01:59:49 pm: Good!
Title: Re: Three American Hostages on their way home with SOS Pompeo
Post by: Frank Cannon on May 09, 2018, 02:05:45 pm: You can say a lot about the chatter going on with NK right now in regards to defusing the situation, but this is a tangible event that I don't think would happen in the past.
Title: Re: Three American Hostages on their way home with SOS Pompeo
Post by: Sanguine on May 09, 2018, 02:06:50 pm: Quote from: Frank Cannon on May 09, 2018, 02:05:45 pm
You can say a lot about the chatter going on with NK right now in regards to defusing the situation, but this is a tangible event that I don't think would happen in the past.

I agree. The last 3 or 4 presidents have given the NKs money to appease them, rather than tell them to shape up.
Title: Re: Three American Hostages on their way home with SOS Pompeo
Post by: Millee on May 09, 2018, 02:23:03 pm: They would have never seen the light of day if President MeeMaw was in office.
Title: Re: Three American Hostages on their way home with SOS Pompeo
Post by: Frank Cannon on May 09, 2018, 02:27:08 pm: Quote from: Sanguine on May 09, 2018, 02:06:50 pm
I agree. The last 3 or 4 presidents have given the NKs money to appease them, rather than tell them to shape up.

Yeah. I think the last time we got one home alive we had to send a briefcase full of cash and a Clinton. Unfortunately they sent the Clinton back.

(https://cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2009/08/04/5b2d7f4b-a642-11e2-a3f0-029118418759/resize/620x465/675680d93cdb7a3a589a980888f4ef17/image5212896.jpg)
Title: Re: Three American Hostages on their way home with SOS Pompeo
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on May 09, 2018, 02:43:45 pm: (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DcwwfyiWsAEhZzn.jpg)
Title: Re: Three American Hostages on their way home with SOS Pompeo
Post by: andy58-in-nh on May 09, 2018, 02:44:16 pm: Quote from: Millee on May 09, 2018, 02:23:03 pm
They would have never seen the light of day if President MeeMaw was in office.
President MeeMaw :silly:

Nice. And while Trump continues to pile up accomplishments, the news media keep breathlessly reporting new "bombshells!!!!!" every day that nobody but them give a damn about.

Let the New York Times keep publishing illegally-obtained personal bank records from unnamed sources that prove absolutely nothing but the depths that they are willing to plumb in their pathological hatred for the President.
Title: A look at the 3 Americans released by North Korea
Post by: TomSea on May 09, 2018, 02:48:50 pm: Quote
A look at the 3 Americans released by North Korea
by Associated Press | May 09, 2018 09:28 AM

SEOUL, South Korea â€” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has left North Korea with three American detainees who were released ahead of an upcoming meeting between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the U.S. president said in a tweet Wednesday.

Here's look at the three Americans, who were held by North Korea for alleged subversion, espionage and other unspecified hostile acts:

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KIM DONG CHUL

Kim, a South Korean-born U.S. citizen, is the longest-serving detainee among the three.

Read more at: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/a-look-at-the-3-americans-released-by-north-korea (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/a-look-at-the-3-americans-released-by-north-korea)
Title: Re: Three American Hostages on their way home with SOS Pompeo
Post by: Millee on May 09, 2018, 02:54:59 pm: Quote from: Right_in_Virginia on May 09, 2018, 02:43:45 pm
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DcwwfyiWsAEhZzn.jpg)

Bwahahaha!! Poor babies. :baby:
Title: Re: Three American Hostages on their way home with SOS Pompeo
Post by: Sanguine on May 09, 2018, 02:57:22 pm: Quote from: Right_in_Virginia on May 09, 2018, 02:43:45 pm
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DcwwfyiWsAEhZzn.jpg)

:rolling: :rolling:
Title: Re: Three American Hostages on their way home with SOS Pompeo
Post by: Concerned on May 09, 2018, 03:22:42 pm: Great news!

:thumbsup:
Title: Re: Three American Hostages on their way home with SOS Pompeo
Post by: endicom on May 09, 2018, 04:55:25 pm: Quote from: Frank Cannon on May 09, 2018, 02:27:08 pm
Yeah. I think the last time we got one home alive we had to send a briefcase full of cash and a Clinton. Unfortunately they sent the Clinton back.

(https://cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2009/08/04/5b2d7f4b-a642-11e2-a3f0-029118418759/resize/620x465/675680d93cdb7a3a589a980888f4ef17/image5212896.jpg)

Who is that Podesta lookin' character in there?
Title: Re: Three American Hostages on their way home with SOS Pompeo
Post by: verga on May 09, 2018, 04:57:53 pm: Best news I have seen all day
Title: Re: Three American Hostages on their way home with SOS Pompeo
Post by: DCPatriot on May 09, 2018, 05:01:30 pm: Quote from: Frank Cannon on May 09, 2018, 02:05:45 pm
You can say a lot about the chatter going on with NK right now in regards to defusing the situation, but this is a tangible event that I don't think would happen in the past.

Still, it makes me think of Otto Warmbier and his family. Very sad for them.
Title: Re: Three American Hostages on their way home with SOS Pompeo
Post by: GrouchoTex on May 09, 2018, 05:03:48 pm: Quote from: Right_in_Virginia on May 09, 2018, 02:43:45 pm
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DcwwfyiWsAEhZzn.jpg)

LOL, the looks on their faces are priceless.

Go Trump! Go Pompeo!
Title: Re: Three American Hostages on their way home with SOS Pompeo
Post by: verga on May 09, 2018, 05:41:03 pm: Quote from: GrouchoTex on May 09, 2018, 05:03:48 pm
LOL, the looks on their faces are priceless.

Go Trump! Go Pompeo!
Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly can come straight to the surface in a New York Minute
Title: Re: Three American Hostages on their way home with SOS Pompeo
Post by: Sanguine on May 09, 2018, 06:00:10 pm: Quote from: DCPatriot on May 09, 2018, 05:01:30 pm
Still, it makes me think of Otto Warmbier and his family. Very sad for them.

Yes, it must be a very hard time for them.
Title: Re: Three American Hostages on their way home with SOS Pompeo
Post by: NavyCanDo on May 09, 2018, 08:05:16 pm: Quote from: Frank Cannon on May 09, 2018, 02:05:45 pm
You can say a lot about the chatter going on with NK right now in regards to defusing the situation, but this is a tangible event that I don't think would happen in the past.

Prisoners were released under Clinton and Obama, but under agreements of appeasement and compromise. Kim is not going away any time soon but that handshake on the border would have earned the above two presidents a Nobel Peace Prize.
Title: Re: Three American Hostages on their way home with SOS Pompeo
Post by: dfwgator on May 09, 2018, 08:12:43 pm: Next, let's get back the USS Pueblo.
Title: Re: Three American Hostages on their way home with SOS Pompeo
Post by: DB on May 09, 2018, 08:14:54 pm: This is good news. I still don't understand why Americans would travel there to be taken in the first place. They just become NK pawns.
Title: Re: Three American Hostages on their way home with SOS Pompeo
Post by: GrouchoTex on May 09, 2018, 08:32:05 pm: Quote from: DCPatriot on May 09, 2018, 05:01:30 pm
Still, it makes me think of Otto Warmbier and his family. Very sad for them.

Indeed, it has to be a bittersweet day for them.
Title: Re: Three American Hostages on their way home with SOS Pompeo
Post by: roamer_1 on May 09, 2018, 08:47:43 pm: Quote from: Frank Cannon on May 09, 2018, 02:05:45 pm
You can say a lot about the chatter going on with NK right now in regards to defusing the situation, but this is a tangible event that I don't think would happen in the past.

Yep - Credit where credit is due. And the buck stops with Trump.

:thumbsup:
Title: Re: Three American Hostages on their way home with SOS Pompeo
Post by: DB on May 09, 2018, 08:52:55 pm: Quote from: roamer_1 on May 09, 2018, 08:47:43 pm
Yep - Credit where credit is due. And the buck stops with Trump.

:thumbsup:

The real milestone is being able to remove most of our troops near the DMZ. If Trump manages to do that, a big thumbs up.
Title: Re: Three American Hostages on their way home with SOS Pompeo
Post by: roamer_1 on May 09, 2018, 08:57:29 pm: Quote from: DB on May 09, 2018, 08:52:55 pm
The real milestone is being able to remove most of our troops near the DMZ. If Trump manages to do that, a big thumbs up.

That's right
Title: Re: Three American Hostages on their way home with SOS Pompeo
Post by: mystery-ak on May 09, 2018, 09:10:56 pm: Quote from: roamer_1 on May 09, 2018, 08:47:43 pm
Yep - Credit where credit is due. And the buck stops with Trump.

:thumbsup:

Great job by Trump and his Administration...I hope these 3 Americans are in good health.
Title: Re: Three American Hostages on their way home with SOS Pompeo
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on May 10, 2018, 01:24:51 am: (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dcyy8AtXkAEI-vg.jpg)
Title: Re: Three American Hostages on their way home with SOS Pompeo
Post by: LauraTXNM on May 10, 2018, 02:45:21 am: So glad!
Title: Re: Three American Hostages on their way home with SOS Pompeo
Post by: XenaLee on May 10, 2018, 02:49:50 am: Quote from: Right_in_Virginia on May 09, 2018, 02:43:45 pm
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DcwwfyiWsAEhZzn.jpg)

LMAO! They both look like they are constipated. I guess Trump really IS a pain in their....

nevermind.