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FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT SEEKS RELEASE OF AMERICAN REPORTERS
Panorama.am
13:51 04/08/2009
Former President Bill Clinton went to North Korea on Monday to
negotiate the release of two American television journalists who
were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor for illegally entering North
Korean territory, foreign media reports.
Mr. Clinton landed in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, early
Tuesday morning local time.
The journalists, Laura Ling, 32, and Euna Lee, 36, weredetained by
soldiers on March 17 near the North Korean border with China. In June,
they were sentenced to 12 years in a North Korean prison camp for
"committing hostilities against the Korean nation and illegal entry."
Panorama.am
13:51 04/08/2009
Former President Bill Clinton went to North Korea on Monday to
negotiate the release of two American television journalists who
were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor for illegally entering North
Korean territory, foreign media reports.
Mr. Clinton landed in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, early
Tuesday morning local time.
The journalists, Laura Ling, 32, and Euna Lee, 36, weredetained by
soldiers on March 17 near the North Korean border with China. In June,
they were sentenced to 12 years in a North Korean prison camp for
"committing hostilities against the Korean nation and illegal entry."