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Journalists convicted in North Korea

Source: Denver Post

Pyŏngyang : North Korea | 5 months ago

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South Korea — North Korea on Monday sentenced two American journalists to 12 years of hard labor in a case widely seen as a test of how far the isolated Communist state was willing to take its confrontational stance toward the United States...Ling and Lee have been held since they were detained by North...

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