N. Korea 'in talks to free US detainees' as diplomacy escalates

North Korea is in talks with the US and Sweden to release three jailed Americans, reports said, as diplomatic activities intensified ahead of Pyongyang's planned summits with Washington and Seoul. The release of the three Korean-Americans is under discussion through multiple channels more than a week after President Donald Trump agreed to meet the North's Kim Jong Un, the reports said. Pyongyang has yet to confirm it even made the US summit offer -- relayed by Seoul envoys who had met Kim in Pyongyang -- but South Korea said he had "given his word" about his commitment to denuclearisation.

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