Trump celebrates 3 Americans freed from North Korea in victorious return to the US

David Choi / BUSINESS INSIDER

• President Donald Trump personally greeted the three US citizens who returned home after being held captive in North Korea.
• Their arrival follows weeks of speculation about their release, which was expected to be a key wild card in the ongoing negotiations surrounding a planned summit between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
• "It was nice letting them go before the meeting," Trump said. "Frankly, we didn't think this was going to happen, and it did."
• Trump also offered his condolences to the parents of Otto Warmbier, the American student who died shortly after his release from a North Korean prison.

President Donald Trump welcomed the arrival of the three Korean-Americans held captive in North Korea at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland early Thursday morning, following weeks of speculation about their release.

 

Authorities released the three detainees — Kim Dong-chul, Kim Sang-duk, and Kim Hak-song — after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in North Korea and met with leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday.

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