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As you may have seen by now, the North Korean state news agency has announced that psychotic dictator Kim Jong-il will pardon captured American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling, hours after granting a surprise audience to former President Bill Clinton. I can’t wait to hear how Clinton’s ability to secure the release of two [...]

Here’s a glimpse of what it’s like inside a North Korean labor camp — of the sort that American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee will have to endure now that a kangaroo court has convicted them for spying. It’s from the most recent edition of the State Department’s annual global human rights report, and [...]

While Roxana Saberi’s imprisonment by the Iranians has attracted widespread international attention, fellow U.S. journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, detained in North Korea, have been less visible cases. The Wall Street Journal reports things appear to be getting worse for them:
Under international criminal law, defendants have the right to access diplomatic officers of their [...]

The North Korean regime will indict two American journalists from Current TV who had been reporting on North Korean refugees in China. After holding them for the past five weeks, they’ll be charged with “illegal entry” into North Korea and the perpetration of “hostile acts” against the paranoid Communist nation. What happens in North Korean [...]

After North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il was a conspicuous no-show at the country’s 60th anniversary celebration yesterday, speculation ran rampant that he was seriously ill. South Korea’s spy agency then confirmed that he had suffered a stroke, most likely several weeks ago, but that he was recovering and there was no power vacuum [...]