Reports: North Korea To Release Three U.S. Citizens At The Trump-Kim Summit

Reuters

Business Insider: North Korea reportedly hands Trump another big win by releasing US prisoners

* North Korea has released three US citizens detained there, the Financial Times reported Wednesday, citing a South Korean activist.
* The three Americans — Kim Dong-chul, Kim Sang-duk, and Kim Hak-song — were released from a labor camp and given health treatment and ideological education in Pyongyang, the report said.
* President Donald Trump's hawkish national security adviser, John Bolton, has called for the Americans' release as a way for North Korea to demonstrate its sincerity ahead of a summit with the US.

North Korea has released three US citizens detained there, the Financial Times reported Wednesday, citing a South Korean activist who campaigns for the release of detainees.

The releases would meet some of the US's demands for North Korea to demonstrate sincerity before a historic meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un — something that John Bolton, Trump's hawkish national security adviser, reiterated during an interview on Fox News on Sunday.

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Update #1: North Korea set to release US prisoners at summit (Financial Times)
Update #2: Three Americans detained in North Korea have been moved and may be RELEASED to mark the historic summit between Kim Jong-un and President Trump next month (Daily Mail).

WNU Editor: Apparently these U.S. prisoners have already been released, and according to the Financial Times are now living in a hotel until the summit. If so .... it is a positive development .... even though I suspect the U.S. made it very clear that this was one of their conditions for this summit. No release of U.S. citizens .... no summit.