Day: May 3, 2018

Well, Well, Well North Korea Just Bowed Down To Another Trump Demand – This Is YUGE!

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When Americans are detained and imprisoned within the boundaries of North Korea, they can expect exceedingly harsh conditions with tiny prison cells, very little food or water, and even less daylight. Their stories follow an eerily similar pattern with a forced confession, a mock trial where they are then sentenced to years of hard labor with little chance of appeal. Routine beatings and even torture are expected.

“It was a 5-by-6-foot cell, and there were a couple of slats on the doors,” Laura Ling, a journalist detained in 2009.

The experiences of other Americans who have been detained and eventually released by North Korea, often with the help of prominent American politicians, crack open the door on the secretive regime’s network of prison camps and the deprivation found there.

The release of Otto F. Warmbier on June 13, 2017, and his subsequent d***h shortly after his return home left the families of three other American citizens known to be imprisoned by the North Koreans’ dictatorial regime highly disturbed and fearing the worst. Warmbier was an American college student who was arrested and held a prisoner in North Korea, died just days after being returned to his family in the US while in a coma.
National Security Adviser John R. Bolton had called for the release of the detainees, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reportedly raised the issue during secret face-to-face talks with Mr. Kim last month in Pyongyang.

Kim Hak-song and Kim Sang Duk worked at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology. Kim Dong Chul is the president of a company involved in international trade and hotel services. He was sentenced to 10 years on espionage charges.

Now those families are resting easier as North Korea has chosen to free the three U.S. citizens detained under Kim Jong Un’s tyranny in the communist country, again choosing to bow to yet another demand made from President Donald Trump just ahead of their upcoming planned meeting.

The former Navy SEAL who took out Osama bin Laden, Robert O’Neill, tweeted about it, as did others.The New York Post reports –

“North Korea has released three US citizens who had been held prisoner by the communist dictatorship, the South Korean news agency Yonhap reported, citing a South Korean activist who lobbies for the release of detainees.

The releases — which have not been confirmed by the State Department — would meet one of the Trump administration’s conditions before President Trump would meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.”

According to the Financial Times –

“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.