Posted on 07/28/2018 6:02:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The United States did not give money to North Korea in exchange for the recovery and return of the remains of US soldiers, killed during the Korean War of 1950-1953, US State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said.
"US code grants the secretary of defense the authority to reimburse the DPRK, or any other country, for expenses associated with the recovery and storage of remains. In this instance, North Korea did not ask for money and no money was exchanged," US State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told the CNN broadcaster.
On Friday, a US airplane carried the remains of US soldiers to the Osan Air Base in South Korea from the North Korean port of Wonsan.
The US and North Korea earlier in June held productive talks on the repatriation of remains of US soldiers killed during the 1950-1953 Korean War, State Secretary Mike Pompeo stated.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un agreed at the June 12 summit with US President Donald Trump in Singapore to help the United States recover the remains of fallen US service members and prisoners of war.
A formal repatriation ceremony will be held at the base on August 1, then the remains will be transported to the US state of Hawaii for forensic identification.
First time I ever heard anything about $.
Obviously Democrat idiotic gossip.
Bad precedent.
Trump made a good deal.
Not paying is a bad precedent?
Sorry, PAYING is bad precedent.
Precedent or not, it’s apparently the law.
When do we get the USS Pueblo back?
I don't need to have the Alphabet networks crying in my beer about payment when the OBAMSTER gave away 500 million per year to Planned Parenthood and many times that amount to Iran for nothing in return.
Mr. Obama no longer occupies the White House.
Barack “I’d rather pay them off than stand up to them” Obama is no longer calling the shots.
The Pueblo will be a tourist stop in a reunified Korea six or seven years from now. You heard it here first.
It’s held now as a N. Korean museum
piece;
Status:
Active, in commission (to prevent seizure, currently held by North Korea as a museum ship)
It’s still a commissioned ship; the oldest after the USS Constitution.
Offer him like $1 million for every North Korean prisoner he has in his mines.
That kind of deal can probably even net TRUMP 5% of the hardcore liberal haters of TRUMP
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