Friday, June 5, 2009

North Korea Holds American Journalists: Let's Not Forget

Laura Ling and Euna Lee are journalists, They work for Current TV, based in San Francisco.

They're being tried in North Korea for 'hostile acts.' What the acts were and why they were hostile is about as clear as anything else that comes out of Kim Jong Il's country. Their trial, of course, is closed.

My guess is that they're being used as bargaining chips, to be traded for something. Probably from America. Sooner or later, a sentence will be announced. After that, they'll either be released, probably with declarations of how magnanimous and merciful The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is (following Iran's lead); or not.

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