Posted on 05/02/2018 12:39:15 PM PDT by doug from upland
North Korea has released three US detainees in the country, according to media reports, and it meets some of President Donald Trump demands for Pyongyang to demonstrate sincerity before its upcoming US summit. Kim Dong-cheol, Kim Sang-deok, and Kim Hak-seong — three US citizens detained in North Korea for years — have been released from a suspected labor camp and given health treatment and ideological education in Pyongyang. The news follows Trump's hawkish National Security Adviser, John Bolton, calling for the release of the detainees as a way for North Korea to demonstrate its sincerity in talks. North Korea has released three US detainees in the country, according to media reports, and it meets some of President Donald Trump demands for Pyongyang to demonstrate sincerity before the historic meeting between Trump and Kim Jong Un.
Kim Dong-cheol, Kim Sang-deok, and Kim Hak-seong — three US citizens detained in North Korea for years — have been released from a suspected labor camp and given health treatment and ideological education in Pyongyang, according to the Financial Times.
"We heard it through our sources in North Korea late last month. We believe that Mr Trump can take them back on the day of the US-North Korea summit or he can send an envoy to take them back to the US before the summit," said Choi Sung-ryong, who campaigns for the release of detainees in North Korea.
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Yep, he makes his detractors look foolish.
Trump needs to demand that NK release the remains of all US troops killed during the war. I’ve heard that NK has a warehouse full of remains, that they dole out a few each year.
This is your remaining family in North Korea. And some who are in South Korea.
Lesson 1: Shut your mouth.
I do not recall such gestures before - although I could easily be mistaken.
It’s like the first bud of spring - one cannot determine the harvest from it, but if no sprigs erupt from the earth, one can be assured of no harvest at all.
My company motto is “Trust, but verify.” (Yep - got it from Reagan, who got it from an old Russian proverb.) I think the motto applies in spades in this situation.
Thank you Mr. President. We love you!
I think a lot of it is the Trump and Chinese leaders relationship, can you imagine what may happen if those two work out a lot of issues over the next 6 years!
Peace prize!! This is such a disaster for the communists in this country.
Nice Job, Mr. Bolton.
Thanks for posting.
What experts?
The experts who paid Kim Jong Prefix to continue developing nuclear weapons over the last 30 years.
Those experts?
I need name Condi.
Oh, and say hi to GW who pushed you out in front of the cameras because he’s too chicken sht to show his face..
I got my magic cowboy boots. drrrrrr!
Manchurian candidate?
North Korea gave the released prisoners ideological education? At first read, I thought that was what they subjected the prisoners to.
Someone explain that to me.
Kudos to the architect of this release, who is also responsible for our great economy.... Barrack Obama.........must I s/?
Yes. A relative’s brother went MIA there, thought to have been taken to a Chinese POW camp. She in her 80s now, would be good if he would come home in her lifetime.
Just look at Google News.. the headlines there are still all about lawyer hiring a new lawyer an other nonsense....
Don’t expect the MSM to even remotely give Trump an ounce of credit. They live in their own dreamworld and nothing shall burst their bubble
But the campaign ad today said “Trump is a threat to world peace”.
Exactly, besides, they are pis*ed off because they wanted the Mueller subpoena story to get legs and dirty up Trump's image, now that's off page one.
It's big, but they only announced that they "will be released at the summit" as part of the "pomp and circumstance", "dog and pony show", or whatever they turn it into. So far, no date for said summit. So, they are still bargaining chips, just raised to a higher profile. Good news no doubt, but they are not home yet...
Orange boy sucks..
So says the countless idiots on the message boards.
What will it take to convert those fools?
I suppose we only need 20% of them.
The rest can go kill themselves for all i care.
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