News Source: Salem News
| 5 months ago
Two Asian/American journalists associated with former Vice President Al Gore have been sentenced to 12-years in North Korea's notorious prison camps. North Korean Communists charge that Laura Ling and Seung-eun Lee entered the country illegally and...
News Source: Los Angeles Times
| 5 months ago
The state-run Korean Central News Agency reported that the court "sentenced each of them to 12 years of reform through labor" but gave no further details. Because the pair were tried by the nation's highest court, there can be no appeal. After the...
News Source: Christian Science Monitor
| 5 months ago
The sentence of 12 years of hard labor for two American journalists in North Korea opens a new chapter in efforts at winning their release. Analysts in Washington and Seoul agree on that much, after Pyongyang's Korean Central News Agency said Laura...
News Source: Fox News
| 5 months ago
The United States may have to offer some form of "good will gesture" to secure the release of the two American journalists sentenced to prison Monday in North Korea, sources said, despite the State Department's tough talk over the weekend. TV...
News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 5 months ago
Conservative protesters hold portraits of detained U.S. journalists Euna Lee, left, and Laura Ling during an anti-North Korea rally last week demanding for the release of the journalists. The Korean characters on the signs read, "Release now!" (Jo...
News Source: Christian Science Monitor
| 5 months ago
A daily summary of global reports on security issues. North Korea on Monday found two American journalists guilty of illegal entry and unspecified "grave" crimes, and sentenced them each to 12 years of hard labor. The news comes as the United States...