Three Hostages Freed From North Korea Thank Trump, Pompeo

Eleven months after Otto Warmbier was released in a coma after a year in imprisonment by the totalitarian North Korean regime, President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo successfully negotiated the release of three American detainees. On Wednesday, the three men, who Trump says appear to be in “good health,” issued a statement personally thanking Trump and Pompeo, as well as the government and people of the United States, for bringing them home.

“We would like to express our deep appreciation to the United States government, President Trump, Secretary Pompeo, and the people of the United States for bringing us home,” the three freed Americans — Kim Dong Chul, Kim Hak Song, and Tony Kim — said in a statement Wednesday.