Upbeat Trump welcomes U.S. prisoners released by North Korea

JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md./WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump welcomed three former U.S. prisoners at a military base near Washington on Thursday, thanking North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for their release and sounding upbeat on a planned summit between the two sides.

The prisoners, freed after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo traveled to the North Korean capital, landed at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington, where a giant U.S. flag was suspended between ladders of two fire trucks on the edge of the taxiway.

Trump and his wife, Melania, boarded the plane for about five minutes before the men stepped out, shaking hands with the president and waving to waiting media and military personnel.

“Frankly we didn’t think it was going to happen and it did,” Trump said after thanking Kim for releasing the men.

“We’re starting off on a new footing. This is a wonderful thing that he released the folks early.”

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Ramin Sarajari’s comments:

It is a wonderful news for the individuals and their immediate family members to see their love ones back.  The feeling of having the love one healthy and back at home is a blessing and we are very grateful.  I also wish and hope we will have peace all over the world as we are all living in a world that belongs to all of us.  We are all human and have our feeling and needs and it is up to our leaders to help and direct the community to a more peaceful solution and do not wage war!

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