Thread: 3 American Christians Held in North Korean Prison Could Soon Be Released

3 American Christians Held in North Korean Prison Could Soon Be Released

05-02-2018
George Thomas

Three American Christians detained in North Korea have reportedly been moved from a labor camp to a hotel on the outskirts of the capital city Pyongyang.

According to Korean newspapers, US citizens Kim Hak-song, Tony Kim and Kim Dong-chul were moved in early April and are receiving medical treatment.

Activists campaigning on the men's behalf say the move is a goodwill gesture ahead of the planned summit between President Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un next month.

"We heard it through our sources in North Korea late last month, said Choi Sung-ryong, a leading activist. "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."

Tony Kim, also known by his Korean name Kim Sang Duk, was arrested on April 22, 2017, just before boarding a plane for a flight back to the United States.

"My father had just finished his semester as a professor in North Korea when he was arrested at the airport," said Kim's eldest son, Sol, in a YouTube video, posted several months ago.

Kim was a professor at Pyongyang University for Science and Technology (PUST), the country's only privately-run academic institution.

"My mom, brother and I miss our dad so much," Kim's son said in that video.

A month later, another Christian professor from PUST, Kim Hak Song, was also arrested.

Both were arrested on suspicion of "hostile acts."

A third person, Kim Dong Chul, a Korean-American missionary, was arrested in October 2015 and sentenced in March 2016 to 10 years of hard labor for subversion.

President Trump's national security adviser said earlier this week that releasing the three Americans would demonstrate North Korea's sincerity in the run-up to a historic summit between the two leaders.

"If North Korea releases the detained Americans before the North-US summit, it will be an opportunity to demonstrate their authenticity," John Bolton, Trump's national security advisor, told Fox News.

President Trump confirmed last week that his administration was in high-level talks with North Korea to secure the release of the Americans.

"We are likewise fighting very diligently to get the three American citizens back," Trump said at a press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in April. "I think there's a good chance of doing it. We're having very good dialogue."

America's top diplomat Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also reportedly brought up the plight of the Christians when he secretly met with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un over the Easter weekend.

Meanwhile, President Trump says he'll soon announce a location and date for his meeting with North Korea's dictator.

"We're setting up meetings right now and I think it's probably going to be announced over the next couple of days, location, and date," Trump told reporters at the White House Tuesday.

The two leaders are expected to discuss a wide range of issues at the summit, including North Korea's promise to end its nuclear testing and eventually give up its atomic weapons.

"The main thing, we want to get peace," Trump said. "It was a big problem, and I think it's going to work out."

http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2018/...on-be-released

That is SO GOOD!!!

Now release all the Japanese prisoners, too!

Keep it moving forward, and change your Constitution about the nuclear weapons. This is very important to do, otherwise, well .... you know what signal that would send to Americans and others, that you might not be as serious as you seem.

Too bad Otto Warmbier was released on his deathbed last June. What they didn't do to that poor college kid for taking a propaganda poster. Wonder how much effort obama put into getting him returned before they smashed his head in. Hard to forget that kind of senseless brutality. A country where its people are infested with intestinal worms due to using human feces untreated for fertilizer.

Getting rid of the nukes is major step for the entire world. Hope we are not going to be sending them money or taking in their people. Let their neighbors SK, Japan help them. Not so easy to forget what was done to ours recently. And in the korean war, our men were killed after they were starved for years. The war ended and they killed them anyway. Nobody did anything about that either. So much for the Geneva convention rules for certain countries.

Yeah, no money, no aid, no oatmeal and NO refugees coming to the US.

We are full up, we are fed up and we are NOT the ATM machine or the dumping ground for the world anymore!



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