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
RockRaven
(14,998 posts)then when I turn them over to you, I'll appear magnanimous, you will appear savvy, whaddya say?
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,281 posts)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
(36,906 posts)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 Obamas biggest fans probably didnt know he was so amazing he could be asking for the release of people who hadnt even been detained yet."
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)...Or Is StupidPrez Winging It Cause Obama Will Always
Be A Superior President That Never Had Indictments Against Him Or His Team ?
kimbutgar
(21,188 posts)This slush money fund story with the Russian guy will tsunami that news.
Chicago1980
(1,968 posts)Why does this stink of that manipulative behavior?
PubliusEnigma
(1,583 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,170 posts)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.