Laura Ling Speaks About Being Released from North Korea

Journalist Laura Ling describes her release with Euna Lee from North Korea, which resulted from a visit and apology from former president Bill Clinton to Kim Jong Il.
syncronsays...

I wrote an essay on why Bill Clinton was my personal hero for an SAT written test (when Bush wasn't universally hated). The graders despised it. But now I guess I wasn't so crazy after all. Take that you redneck fundamentalists.

jerrykusays...

This reminds me of when Jesse Jackson met up with Slobodan Milosevic and somehow got him to free two American soldiers, who had been taken POW... despite the fact that America was still attacking his country at the time (Kosovo war). I wonder what Jackson said to get such a thing to happen? And the same goes for here... what did Clinton do?

@Wingoguy, I somewhat agree. I can only assume the two had hoped to sneak into North Korea in order to report on the plight of the population. I think it's a brave thing to do for a journalist, especially considering how little money stories about the North Korean populace they would've gotten. I mean, let's be honest, most people would rather read a story about Michael Jackson than about the suffering of millions of people.

demon_ixsays...

>> ^griefer_queafer:
Geez, they're talking like something BAD happened. Maybe I am just a cold old man, but I mean, C'MON, how traumatic could it have been? ::FACEPLANT::

Give it a couple of days, let them settle down, and then start doing the talk shows and describe in detail the crap they went through.

Keep in mind, that three days ago it was entirely possible that they would spend the rest of their lives in a North Korean prison camp...

How long does it take for someone to actually give up on seeing their home ever again? That's the trauma.

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