As U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi emerged from their bilateral meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday, a dozen people stood on both sides of the room, holding pictures of family members.

The White House said that they were relatives who had loved ones abducted by North Korea.

Trump also met with families of Japanese who were abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s during a visit to Japan in his first term in 2019.

He suggested some of the same relatives were on-hand on Tuesday, saying, “I remember all these beautiful faces.”

“I’m with them all the way,” Trump said. “And the U.S. is with them."