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.
“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 Mr Choi.