Newsweek: U.S. STILL HASN'T RECEIVED SOLDIERS' REMAINS FROM NORTH KOREA, SAYS POMPEO

[scarletwoman]

http://www.newsweek.com/north-korea-still-has-not-returned-us-soldiers-remains-says-pompeo-1000928

Despite President Donald Trump’s boast at a rally that he had secured the remains of U.S. troops killed during the Korean War, his secretary of state says North Korea is yet to send any.

Around 7,700 U.S. soldiers remain unaccounted for from the conflict, the majority of whom are presumed dead in North Korea. As the U.S. military moved 100 wooden coffins to the border between North and South Korea in preparation last week, Trump told a rally in Minnesota: “We got back our great fallen heroes, the remains, in fact today already 200 have been sent back.”

Speaking to the Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday, Trump’s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo did not confirm the president’s comments, when Senator Cynthia Shaheen raised the issue of the Korean War dead. Shaheen asked on behalf of charity workers who have dedicated years to repatriating the remains of U.S. soldiers missing in action.

“I am optimistic that we will begin to have two opportunities: One is to receive some remains in the not-too-distant future, but then there is a great deal of work with companies like the one you described, nonprofits,” Pompeo said. Asked if this meant that the U.S. had in fact not yet received the remains, Pompeo confirmed that was correct. “We have not yet physically received them,” he said.

(my bold) Much more at link.

[spanone]

1. "We have not yet physically received them," he said....then how have you received them, mike?

did you get them spiritually?

in a seance?

cause the liar-in-chief has already bragged on it.

[Leghorn21]

2. OMG, something like that, s!! Telepathically?? By uhhh, through osmosis?

Osmostically, yeah, that’s the ticket!!

oh have mercy

[Marie Marie]

3. Yes, spiritually. They are home via our thoughts and prayers.

Doesn't that usually solve everything?

[keithbvadu2]

4. Donald does not care about them anyway. He likes people who were not captured.

Donald does not care about them anyway. He likes people who were not captured.

[Generic Other]

5. The check is in the mail

but it's going to bounce.

[gratuitous]

6. Kim also said he'd respect Trump in the morning

And Donald fell for it. The worst of it, of course, is that the families still don't have the remains even though Trump cruelly dangled the prospect as a fait accompli.

[smirkymonkey]

7. It was only about optics for him anyway.

He could give a damn about anyone but himself.

[scarletwoman]

8. The thing is, Trump told his cultists that 200 bodies have already been returned.

And that's what they'll believe. Period.

And if he tells the trumpsters that Kim Jung Un has gotten rid of his entire nuclear arsenal, they'll believe that, too.

See, it doesn't matter what happens out here in reality, trump has his loyal followers trained to believe nothing and no one but him.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

9. The soldiers' parents are going to be so disappointed that Trump didn't keep his promise.

Of course, the fact that the parents would have to be in excess of 100 years old never gets in the way of a Trump lie.

[peekaloo]

14. Sorry, I didn't see this before I posted.

Plenty of sarcasm to go around.

[JI7]

10. what fucking annoys me about this is the media does a huge thing of reporting what they claim

will happen but no updates or anything when nothing happens or they lie .

[Takket]

11. Maybe they are going to shoot them back

In one of those nuclear missiles they have resumed building.

[kacekwl]

12. So he lied about the remains being returned and

lied about NK shutting down it's nuke program. Was trump even in NK ? Was there even a summit with Kim ? I'm sure the press will let us know with the same vigor they had when it happens. Or did it ?

[peekaloo]

13. Their parents must be heartbroken.