Wednesday, June 17, 2009

N. Korea: No Appeal for American Journalists

N. Korea released a report yesterday indicating that the two American journalists held in their custody, Euna Lee an Laura Ling, are guilty of all charges, by their own admission. In the report , according to the AP, the women admitted to illegally entering N.Korea, and were guilty of a "smear campaign" about N. Korean Human Rights. The families of both women, steadily maintain that they did not intend to enter. Both women were sentenced to 12 years labor.

I question the timing in which this information is released. The sentences were levied last week, why is it only now this information is being released? Perhaps its a ploy for higher leverage to the growing N.Korea-America tension.

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