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| 2 US journalists on trial in North Korea |
| 2009-06-04 |
| And the moral of the story: Don't play games with people who don't play games... SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea's top court began hearing the case Thursday of two American journalists accused of crossing into the country illegally and engaging in "hostile acts" -- charges that could draw a 10-year sentence in a labor camp. Laura Ling and Euna Lee, reporters for former Vice President Al Gore's California-based Current TV, were arrested March 17 near the North Korean border while on a reporting trip to China. North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency said in a brief dispatch earlier Thursday that the trial would begin at 3 p.m. (0600 GMT; 2 a.m. EDT) in Pyongyang's Central Court. Hours later, there was no word on the status of the proceedings. |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #6 Yes, Phil_B, but they were investigating from the Chinese side of the border. Reports at the time said North Korean soldiers came across the border to kidnap them... just as they did the various Japanese -- mostly young women -- that the North Koreans decided they wanted. I don't blame Ms. Ling and Ms. Lee for what happened, I just pray they will survive, and with their honour and sanity intact. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-06-04 23:28 |
| #5 I can imagine a little of what they might be wishing for: The presumption of innocence until proven guilty. A fair trial, with access to attorneys of their choice and the right to study what is claimed as evidence against them. More contact with their families, whom they probably worry are worrying about themselves!" That's one of most idotic things I've ever heard. Otherwise, I wouldn't be too hard on them. They were investigating one of the nastier aspects of the Nork regime. Something liberals normally close their mind to, ie how nasty and evil these regimes are, as they (liberals) wallow in their fatuous moral equivalence. |
| Posted by: Phil_B 2009-06-04 20:52 |
| #4 Shoulda wasted their life looking for their imaginary BushHitlerMonkey gulags. Now they're going to experience the real thing under a real dictatorship. Literally, red on red on this one. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-06-04 15:53 |
| #3 I third that. Keep 'em.... |
| Posted by: Kelly 2009-06-04 13:54 |
| #2 "Roxana Saberi, an I second 'keep em'. |
| Posted by: Zorba 2009-06-04 12:21 |
| #1 Keep em. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2009-06-04 11:45 |