ANOTHER SUCCESS FOR MEDIA TO IGNORE

From Alex Lockie’s article at businessinsider.com:

North Korea has released three US citizens detained there, the Financial Times reported Wednesday, citing a South Korean activist who campaigns for the release of detainees.

The releases would meet some of the US’s demands for North Korea to demonstrate sincerity before a historic meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un — something that John Bolton, Trump’s hawkish national security adviser, reiterated during an interview on Fox News on Sunday.

The three citizens— Kim Dong-chul, Kim Sang-duk, and Kim Hak-song — have been released from a labor camp and given health treatment and ideological education in Pyongyang, the Financial Times report said.

“We heard it through our sources in North Korea late last month,” Choi Sung-ryong told the news outlet. “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.”

If this is true – a big “if”, given kim jung-un’s history – it is a major triumph for the United States…and, specifically, for Donald Trump.

At the very least, it would be a major step forward toward negotiations and a possible denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.  You don’t publicly accede to your adversary’s requests if you don’t mean business.

Now, let’s see how most mainstream media find a way to downplay or ignore it.