Trump Thanks Kim While Welcoming Three Americans Home From North Korea
- Former detainees arrive in Washington early Thursday
- ‘It’s like a dream,’ Kim Dong Chul says. ‘We are very happy.’
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Donald Trump welcomed home three Americans released from detention in North Korea in the dark of Thursday morning, thanking that country’s leader Kim Jong Un and reiterating that his goal in an upcoming summit is to rid the Korean peninsula of nuclear weapons.
The three men flew to Washington after their release to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who was dispatched to Pyongyang on Tuesday in the hope that Kim would agree to free the detainees. Trump and his wife Melania boarded the former prisoners’ plane at Joint Base Andrews shortly before 3 a.m. on Thursday to greet the men.