US President Donald Trump welcomed three Americans who had been held prisoner in North Korea back home on Thursday, thanking its leader Kim Jong Un for their release and sounding upbeat about a planned US-North Korea summit. “Frankly, we didn’t think it was going to happen and it did,” Trump said after thanking Kim for releasing the men. There has been no sign that Pompeo’s visit has cleared up the central question of whether North Korea will be willing to bargain away weapons its ruling family has long seen as crucial to its survival. Made-for-TV momentThe arrival of the released prisoners in the dead of night created a made-for-TV moment for Trump, a former reality television host. “I think you probably broke the all-time-in-history television rating for three o’clock in the morning,” Trump joked to cameras.

Source: Dhaka Tribune May 10, 2018 13:07 UTC