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Trump: Mike Pompeo flying home from North Korea with 3 US detainees

By Katelyn Caralle
Published May 9, 2018 12:43pm ET
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Trump: Mike Pompeo flying home from North Korea with 3 US detainees
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers remarks with Mexican Foreign Secretary Luis Videgaray at the State Department, Monday, May 7, 2018 in Washington. | (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

President Trump said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was flying home Wednesday morning from North Korea with three U.S. detainees.

“I am pleased to inform you that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in the air and on his way back from North Korea with the 3 wonderful gentlemen that everyone is looking so forward to meeting. They seem to be in good health,” Trump tweeted Wednesday morning.

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