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Our hostages have come home, nuclear testing has stopped and there has not been a missile launch in more than 15 months. If I had not been elected President of the United States, we would right now, in my opinion, be in a major war with North Korea.
Our troops are pursuing the Abu Sayyaf who broke into small groups and withdrew to the interior of the island, this is part of our focused military operation to free foreign hostages held by the Abu Sayyaf.
As a police officer for 29 years, I did everything from, dealt with mentally ill people … to negotiating people into letting their hostages go and talking to people out of killing themselves and delivering a baby, and tasering somebody 30 years younger than me through a neighborhood who just committed a burglary, and everything in between, in today's atmosphere, [there is] the expectation that police officers are going to have so much more specialty training, especially when we're talking about mental illness and and utilization of various different kinds of weapons and making sure that we're always exactly within policy and things like that.
We've continued to make progress. We're continuing to have conversations. The US is going to continue to keep pressure and sanctions on North Korea until we see fully and verified denuclearization. We've had very good steps in good faith from North Korea in releasing the hostages and other moves so we're going to continue those conversations.
We are still working to verify the actual number of the rescued hostages but I can say they include around 60 women and 100 children.
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