Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday that the United States was now seeking amnesty for two American journalists imprisoned in North Korea, a remark that suggests that the Obama administration was admitting the womens culpability in a bid to secure their freedom.
On Friday, The New York Times covered the announcement…
The two journalists, Laura Ling, 36, and Euna Lee, 32, both reporters for San Francisco-based Current TV, were sentenced in June to 12 years of hard labor after a trial in which they were accused of entering the country illegally and committing hostile acts.
Ms. Ling reportedly called her sister, Lisa Ling, also a journalist, this week and said in the course of a 20-minute conversation that they had broken North Korean law, but her sister did not say how. Human rights advocates in South Korea have said they were on a reporting assignment about the plight of North Korean women sold through human traffickers and refugees fleeing hunger in North Korea when they were detained March 17. More…