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For two families praying for the release of U.S. journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, the news that they were sentenced to 12 years in a North Korean labor camp comes as a bombshell, as the U.S. government works feverishly for their freedom.
Laura Ling and Euna Lee are sentenced to 12 years in a labor prison.
The two women, who were arrested in March while reporting for Al Gore's Current TV along the Chinese-North Korean border, were found guilty today of "hostilities against the Korean nation and illegal entry."
"She's really scared," "Nightline" contributor Lisa Ling said of her sister in a recent ABC News interview. "I mean, she's terrified. My sister is a wife, with a medical condition. And Euna Lee is the mother of a 4-year-old girl, who has been without her mother for almost three months."
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So the sentences are in and two US journalists are each sentenced to 12 yrs hard labor.
I don't know how anyone could know the facts, real facts here. I seriously doubt the US government would send these twoo to spy on the NK government. I'm also not sure they were in fact in NK. Some reports I've read have them in China but kind of in the middle of nowhere.
Think there's any chance of getting these women out now? Think NK is simply using them as pawns?
I think they're pawns and bargaining chips for the NK regime. But my understanding of NK and why they do what they do falls into the jack shit category.
Anyone else follow this more closely, have thoughts?