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Detainee asked to be let off plane in Alaska 'cause he 'hadn't seen daylight for a very long time'
The London Daily Mail ^ | May 10, 2018 | Jennifer Smith

Posted on 05/10/2018 2:09:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

One of three Americans who were freed from North Korea on Thursday asked to be let off the US State Department plane which brought them home as it refuelled in Alaska because he had not seen daylight for 'a very long time', it has been revealed.

Kim Dong- chul, Kim Hak-song and Kim Sang-duk, also known as Tony Kim, arrived at Joint Air Base Andrews in Maryland at 2 am on Thursday. They were greeted by President Trump and the first lady on the tarmac.

At around 6pm, their plane stopped in Anchorage, Alaska, to refuel where one of the men asked to be allowed out to see the light, according to Vice President Mike Pence.

'The Secretary of State told me that when the plane refuelled in Anchorage, one of the detainees asked to go outside the plane because he hadn't seen daylight in a very long time,' Pence told GMA on Thursday, describing the situation as 'heartbreaking'....

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Government; Travel
KEYWORDS: alaska; dprk; korea; trumpnkhostages
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1 posted on 05/10/2018 2:09:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What these people have experienced is impossible to comprehend. God bless all of them as well as Otto who did not survive.

This President is the best since Reagan. He s changing the world for the better.


2 posted on 05/10/2018 2:13:27 PM PDT by ilgipper
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Poor guys. I think Kim Dong-chul was the one who looked most harshly treated, very thin in the face.


3 posted on 05/10/2018 2:14:36 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: ilgipper

I stayed up late last night to see them coming off the plane, brought a smile to my face seeing them home safe..then I thought about Otto, wished that he could have come home the same way, I know he was looking down from heaven happy that these brave men are home safe. God Bless the Warmbier family


4 posted on 05/10/2018 2:15:24 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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5 posted on 05/10/2018 2:19:41 PM PDT by potlatch ("Dream as if you'll live forever...Live as if you'll die today")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I wish that Trump would make a trip to Los Angeles and have a huge rally in Korea Town.


6 posted on 05/10/2018 2:24:32 PM PDT by forgotten man
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To: forgotten man

Pretty good idea.

I’d send in Pence though. Likely to get shot.


7 posted on 05/10/2018 2:30:23 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: ilgipper

Trump offers support to Otto Warmbier’s family ahead of North Korea summit
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3652896/posts


8 posted on 05/10/2018 2:34:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: RinaseaofDs

“I’d send in Pence though. Likely to get shot.”

In that case, can we just send Pelosi?


9 posted on 05/10/2018 2:35:05 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: forgotten man

We have a Koreatown in Dallas, too.


10 posted on 05/10/2018 2:37:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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"I wish that Trump would make a trip to Los Angeles and have a huge rally in Korea Town."

Could you guys help make that happen?

11 posted on 05/10/2018 2:41:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

I woke up just in time to see. Had tears running down my cheeks.


12 posted on 05/10/2018 2:45:13 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Its been said often, but oh how true it’s the little things that one misses the most. Back when I was small there was a WW II Vet a member of my Grandfather’s Post for him it was milk after being a guest of the Emperor, he said he never could get his fill for years after he came home.


13 posted on 05/10/2018 2:47:18 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Now we have a place to send cankles, obunghole, and many others so that we can avoid having to incarcerate them in a far more comfortable place like gitmo...


14 posted on 05/10/2018 2:50:30 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; cracker45; Tainan; Jet Jaguar; SENTINEL; redpoll; ArmyTeach; Eska; hattend; ...

Alaska Ping!

15 posted on 05/10/2018 2:57:01 PM PDT by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Such respect from our Korean Americans. Not so much for those basketball players who stole stuff and pee’d on Trump when they were released.


16 posted on 05/10/2018 3:04:50 PM PDT by Karliner (Jeremiah29:11,Romans8:28 Isa 17, Damascus has fallen)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; forgotten man

“We have a Koreatown in Dallas, too.”

Weird thing is that they have like a whole bunch of them all over Korea!


17 posted on 05/10/2018 3:06:29 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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The whole place is like one big Koreatown.


18 posted on 05/10/2018 3:07:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“The whole place is like one big Koreatown.”

It’s crazy, isn’t it?


19 posted on 05/10/2018 3:17:55 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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I enjoyed every day of two years.


20 posted on 05/10/2018 3:19:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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