North Korea set to release US prisoners at summit

[JW-Ind]

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North Korea has released the three Americans detained in the country’s labour camps in a display of goodwill ahead of the looming summit between its Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump, campaigners say.

 

The three Korean-American detainees — Kim Dong-cheol, Kim Sang-deok and Kim Hak-seong — were released from the labour correction centre in early April and are getting health treatment and ideological education at a hotel near Pyongyang, according to Choi Sung-ryong, the country’s most vocal campaigner for South Korean abductees held in North Korea.

 

The news came after John Bolton, Mr Trump’s newly appointed national security adviser, told Fox News on Sunday: “If North Korea releases the detained Americans before the North-US summit, it will be an opportunity to demonstrate their authenticity.”