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Old 05-09-2018, 7:00pm   #1
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North Korea has just released 3 American hostages

This is a big win for their families — and President Donald Trump.
By Alex [email protected]@vox.com May 9, 2018, 8:37am EDT
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un just released three American hostages. They will now return home with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. KRT via AP Video

Tony Kim. Kim Hak-song. Kim Dong-chul.

Those are the names of three American hostages North Korea held for months — and just agreed to release. They’re accompanying Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who was in North Korea for official meetings, back to the United States, according to President Donald Trump.

Last week, in what was seen as a diplomatic gesture in advance of upcoming talks between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the North Korean government transferred the Americans from the brutal labor camps where they were being held to a hotel near Pyongyang.

Then late Tuesday night, Kim took the final step, authorizing their official release and handing them over to US custody, which Trump confirmed on Twitter Wednesday morning.

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.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 9, 2018

Trump added in a following tweet that Pompeo and the three former hostages will arrive in the US at 2 am on Thursday. Trump will greet them once they land.

This moment was at least two months in the making. In March, North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho traveled to Sweden — which acts as an intermediary for Washington and Pyongyang — to discuss releasing the hostages. And over Easter weekend, then-CIA Director Pompeo spoke personally with Kim about the detainees.

Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, who has spent decades negotiating hostage releases with North Korea, told me the releases might form part of a larger negotiating process. “I believe the US made it a precondition that North Korea release American hostages before the summit,” he said during a May 4 interview.

Experts believe that freeing the three men would be a tangible way for North Korea to try to lower tensions with the US before what would be a historic summit. That’s especially true given the lingering ill will between Washington and Pyongyang over North Korea’s treatment of Otto Warmbier, a 22-year-old American who was detained by the Kim government for 17 months and died under mysterious circumstances shortly after he was brought home to the US.

“Releasing the three Americans is a good sign that North Korea wants a good meeting between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un and, eventually, a peaceful resolution of the nuclear and other issues with North Korea,” says Joseph DeTrani, a former intelligence official who previously negotiated peace talks with North Korea.

That means a possible hostage release could form part of a longer rapprochement between America and North Korea. But make no mistake: Getting US citizens out of North Korean prisons — which one report said were “as terrible [as] Nazi camps” — is a big win for the men’s families, and for Trump himself.
Who are the US hostages that were held in North Korea?
A North Korean national flag flies in North Korea’s propaganda village near the Demilitarized Zone.
A North Korean national flag flies in North Korea’s propaganda village near the Demilitarized Zone. Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images

Here’s what we know about the three US hostages headed home right now. One was snatched during the Obama presidency, while the other two were taken into custody after Trump took office.

Tony Kim, who reportedly is 59 years old, spent a month last year teaching at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology. But as he boarded a plane on April 22, 2017, to leave North Korea, authorities arrested him on unknown charges. Kim, who was originally from South Korea but later became a US citizen, lived in North Korea with his wife, who reportedly still lives in the country.

“We miss him. We want to know how he is doing. We want to see him, and ultimately we want to have him home,” Sol Kim, Tony’s son, told the Washington Post in February.

Kim Hak-song also worked at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology. North Korean authorities arrested him in early May, two weeks after snatching Tony Kim, for committing what the North Korean state media described as “hostile acts.” It’s unclear if their detainments are connected in any way.

Kim, originally from China, is an agricultural consultant who came to America in the 1990s and later earned US citizenship. He then moved back to China to study agriculture and, later, moved to Pyongyang.

The longest-imprisoned American in North Korea is Kim Dong-chul, in his mid-60s. North Korean authorities arrested him in October 2015 and later sentenced him to 10 years of hard labor for espionage and subversion.

Kim lived in a Chinese city near the border with North Korea and had worked as the head of a hotel services company in the special economic zone between the two countries since 2001.

North Korean prisons are notoriously brutal, and it’s not yet clear what condition the men are in. The hope, though, is these hostages will escape the fate of Warmbier, the college student who was detained in North Korea and died soon after being released.
After languishing in N. Korean prisons, our hostages return.....to be welcomed by the POTUS. At 2 am.

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BREAKING: Hawaiian judge rules the hostages must go back to prison. Freedom is 'unconstitutional.'

Edit: 'Shadow' diplomat John Kerry is negotiating the surrender of the hostages back to N. Korea.
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They have made it safely to US soil. Plane refueling in Alaska

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Hope they gave em the right ones.


Lord I apologize for............
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Man, I'm getting tired of all this winning.
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Yeah, but, but...Trump sucks!
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You left one out.







There's three of them
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3 am: Trump AND Pence answered the call.

Compare and contrast.
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3 am: Trump AND Pence answered the call.

Compare and contrast.
I wonder how many times they had the military change their uniforms before they left to go get them?
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Yeah, but, but...Trump said "*****"!
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Man, I'm getting tired of all this winning.
I'm not.
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