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mr40, North Korea releasing prisoners is par for the course for any American president.

"If nothing else happens with the NK summit, at least Trump got three Americans released and didn't pay a dime."

Putting aside your implication that Obama paid for the release of any prisoners, which is just another of your repeated
blatant lies. One other of yours recently that Hillary lied more than Trump. You do know that one is not true either.

Kenneth Bae recalls his North Korean detention in upcoming memoir

By Madison Park, for CNN

Updated 12:12 AM ET, Tue March 22, 2016

[...]

Bae is among a string of Americans who've served time in North Korea and have followed a familiar pattern. American detainees have usually been trotted out to publicly apologize and beg forgiveness on North Korean state media. Then, they are later released after entreaties by the U.S. government or a high-profile visit by a U.S. official to Pyongyang.

[...]

Bae was released in November 2014 after Director of National Intelligence James Clapper went to Pyongyang as an envoy of President Barack Obama. He was released alongside another American detainee, Matthew Todd Miller. Immediately after he landed in the United States, Bae thanked his supporters, Obama and the U.S. State Department.

https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/22/us/kenneth-bae-north-korea-speaks/index.html

Did you ever consider the possibility, albeit possibly unlikely, that North Korea could arrest Americans just so they could be seen in a
better light by releasing them sometime later in the game? Do you think that strategy would be beyond Kim Jong-un's imagination?

So Trump deserves no big kudos for the release of the three. And don't forget two of them were arrested during Trump's presidency, in 2017.

See also:

N. Korea threatens to pull out of Trump-Kim summit over denuclearization demands
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