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Two American journalists face five to ten years' detention in a North Korean labor camp after being seized by border guards and charged with "illegal entry" and carrying out "hostile" activities, according to a Reporters Sans Frontièrs (Reporters Without Borders) report dated March 31.
RSF, an international organization advocating and monitoring freedom of the press, reports that the journalists were near the Chinese border with North Korea investigating the smuggling of North Korean women into China for sale. RSF cites multiple anonymous sources that suspect that the American journalists were on the Chinese side of the Tumen River when North Korean border guards crossed into China to capture them on March 17, which contradicts North Korea's assertion and refutes their jurisdiction.
Euna Lee (pictured, left) and Laura Ling (pictured, right), of the San Francisco-based Current TV Web site, a media outlet chaired by former Vice President Al Gore, are detained in North Korea while their guide, an ethnic Korean with Chinese citizenship, is detained in China. A fourth member of the group arrested in the incident, cameraman Mitch Koss, was detained in China then deported.
RSF calls the detention of the two American journalists by North Korea "diplomatic blackmail," timed conspicuously around the scheduled missile launch to send a satellite into orbit, which some -- including Japan and the United States -- are concerned will be a test of long-range missiles capable of carrying warheads.
RSF, an international organization advocating and monitoring freedom of the press, reports that the journalists were near the Chinese border with North Korea investigating the smuggling of North Korean women into China for sale. RSF cites multiple anonymous sources that suspect that the American journalists were on the Chinese side of the Tumen River when North Korean border guards crossed into China to capture them on March 17, which contradicts North Korea's assertion and refutes their jurisdiction.Euna Lee (pictured, left) and Laura Ling (pictured, right), of the San Francisco-based Current TV Web site, a media outlet chaired by former Vice President Al Gore, are detained in North Korea while their guide, an ethnic Korean with Chinese citizenship, is detained in China. A fourth member of the group arrested in the incident, cameraman Mitch Koss, was detained in China then deported.
RSF calls the detention of the two American journalists by North Korea "diplomatic blackmail," timed conspicuously around the scheduled missile launch to send a satellite into orbit, which some -- including Japan and the United States -- are concerned will be a test of long-range missiles capable of carrying warheads.
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stephanie
12:39AM 12:39AM Apr 1st 2009
China....threatens to hold two Americans for 10 years for floating into their waters...
This is the same country that America is relying upon for money loans to fund America's insatiable debt.
What do you think China will demand from America when America fails to pay that debt?
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Jwarrick16
1:48PM 1:48PM Apr 2nd 2009
It's not China that is holding them.. It's North Korea.
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j dunn
9:28PM 9:28PM Apr 1st 2009
GREAT RULES FOR ILLEGALS, WE NEED THE SAME RULES IN U.S.A.
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Ty Gaston
11:25AM 11:25AM Apr 2nd 2009
Why dont Obama get off his ass, tell the Korens to release the two journalists in exchange for letting them launch thier satellite, if they dont release the journalists and they launch the missile, shoot the shit down to prove our point we wotn be tolerated with or our people
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nick
3:22PM 3:22PM Apr 2nd 2009
Adam Kichner tell them you will trade your life for theirs, since they worked for Gore maybe he can give himself up to them???
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charlie
4:35PM 4:35PM Apr 2nd 2009
I hope they aren't depending on Al Gore or obama bin lyin to get them out since ass kissing has never worked with dictators
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MaggieMo
7:42PM 7:42PM Apr 2nd 2009
Good luck to these two. If Obama and Dean Koh's transnationalism take root, this will fall under the world court. Our Constitution will become obsolete. As far as I'm concerned, these 2 liberal wackos are about to learn what goes around comes around. The North Koreans can keep 'em.
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