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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2018

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S E N A T E   R E S O L U T I O N

THANKING AND CONGRATULATING THE HONORABLE DONALD J. TRUMP FOR HIS

ROLE IN SECURING THE RELEASE OF THREE AMERICAN DETAINEES FROM NORTH

KOREA

     

     Introduced By: Senator Elaine J. Morgan

     Date Introduced: May 15, 2018

     Referred To: Recommended for Immediate Consideration

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     WHEREAS, On May 9, 2018, Americans received the good news that three American

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citizens being detained in North Korea, Kim Dong-chul, Tony Kim, also known as Kim Sang-

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duk, and Kim Hak-song, were being released thanks to months of encouraging diplomacy

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conducted by President Trump and his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; and

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     WHEREAS, Kim Dong-chul, a businessman, was arrested in October of 2015 and

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sentenced to ten years of hard labor after being accused of spying. Tony Kim was teaching at

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Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, when he was arrested and detained in April of

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2017. Kim Hak-song was a volunteer at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology when

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he was arrested and detained in May of 2017; and

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     WHEREAS, Thanks to the diplomatic breakthroughs that have occurred this year

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between the United States and North Korea, accomplished in large part due to the innovative

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approach to diplomacy conducted by President Trump, three American prisoners now have their

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freedom again and there is great hope for lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula; now, therefore

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be it

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     RESOLVED, That this Senate of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

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hereby thanks and congratulates President Trump for his role in securing the release of three

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detainees from North Korea; and be it further

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     RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to

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transmit a duly certified copy of this resolution to the Honorable Donald J. Trump, President of

 

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the United States.

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