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  • Somewhere Inside On page: 142 “I slept with his t-shirt beside me each night, putting part of it up to my nose. When I first received it, it smelled so much like my husband that some nights I’d wake up thinking he was right beside me. I’d open my eyes to see the same drab wall, but at least I had a piece of Iain with me.”

    I cried when I read that and I had to put the book down.

  • Lessons learned!!!! Don't mess up with the wrong people!!!

  • Euna Lee - went to Academy of Art University - graduated about 1 year after me. . .vaguely remember seeing here there.

    Laura Ling - went to the same high school as I (Del Campo High School)... her sister, Lisa Ling, graduated same year (1991) as I.

    Now . . . strange thing is that I will be going to South Korea (NOT North Korea, though) for work in about 2.5~3 month as soon as I get my criminal background check authenticated (which is required for visa application).

  • They risked their lives to expose to the world the horrors of slave labor camps and total lack of human rights in NK...they must be commended

  • I am glad that Laura and Euna were able to make it home, but I can't help but ask, What the hell were they DOING in NK in the first place? They had to have known enough about it to know it's a place where you don't want to get caught, as American journalists, no less!

  • @mplsmn1975 There r always those who will risk for the chance to help others...that's what Laura and Lisa did. The slave labor camps in NK must be exposed and the imprisonment , execution and torture of freedom seekers in China and NK must end, we must commend Laura and Euna.

  • @bckmma  I understand they were reporting on North Korean women and children refugees who had fled to China. That's why I don't understand why they didn't just stay in China. They were getting a first-hand account of life in North Korea from its own defectors without having to actually enter the country. (unless they were dragged across the border and then arrested, which has apparently happened in other incidents.) Anyway, don't get me wrong, I still respect what they were doing.

  • What these women have proven to us is that public awareness is the strongest weapon against government injustice. I have an acquaintance who's father has been falsely incarcerated in Sri-Lanka for over 4 years, merely for being Tamil despite having an Irish passport and no grounds for arrest. His loving family, including 3 daughters, are to this day trying to get him released. If only the world knew about situations like these, imagine what we could do.

  • King Jon ill should have killed these annoying bitches.

  • @tybash y? although i have heard of a porno based on these dynamics.

  • @tybash Kim* Jong* Il*. Lmao...

  • These are two ugly Asians who married dopey white guys. The typical Asian American combination.

  • any reporter going to a hot border or warzone is risking it. They know it, and do relish the praise if they get home, for being a maverick, daring, cutting edge, believe in what is right, all nonsense. How fast such monikers go out the window when locked up, freed in tears, just to write more books. We know you don't mess with N Korea, now they write a book since released since their first plan failed. Fucking jokers

  • It's funny, there's footage of these dumb bitches trying to rush into a conflict between Mexican Police and drug cartels. What these people don't understand is how little a drug cartel or an insane totalitarian leader care about the lives of two journalists. These groups kill people on the regular. You have to be fucking stupid to take the actions of these bitches as heroic. They're lucky they didn't die in Mexico before they went to North Korea.

  • Look at these two law breakers get set free and waste tax payer's money. Hooray you get to go back to America and suck some more white cock you two ugly horse face bitches!

    I'm surprised North Korea let Laura Ling go after what her ugly horse face sister Lisa Ling did to North Korea.

  • I wish Bill Clinton were still president. He was such a great man.

  • Nice job Bill Clinton, but these bitches were still stupid for crossing that frozen river.. I definitely wouldn't pity them if they died..

  • dumb bitches

  • @quantumdude

    Chicken shit...

  • shame of Asian women, if America is the same level as Africa today, would you live here then? women like you two are what stands for "cheap slut"

  • That's what you get when you break rules in a communist country.

    It also doesn't help when the country's leader has the mentality of a 9 yr old.

    Don't get me wrong, I'm glad they came out alive.

    May this be a lesson to future reporters/journalists.

  • North Korea and South Korea are two DIFFERENT countries, they just have a same name as Korea

  • I thought Euna Lee was born in the US but I guess not since she's got accent

  • they were on north korean soil. wtf is everyone crying about? it's not like america over there where anybody can cross the border and get free medical care and education

  • I'm sure Euna had a really hard time there, being a South Korean and American.

  • Instead of ridiculing them and casting judgement on a horrible situation, you should read the book and hopefully you will realize that these woman were trying to expose a dire situation that NK people face every day. As cliche as it sounds, we are all human beings-but some of us were lucky enough to of been born in a free country. Thanks Laura and Euna for sharing your story and inspiring me to not just want to make a difference, but making me realize that I can!

  • CIA spies! You can't fool me. Lucky you weren't both shot. Only thing missing on this video are crocodile tears.

  • I'd do the girl in yellow.

  • The only way these two white-washed whores got out was by bending down and giving Kim the blow job. Then they had his come splattered all over their faces. For the ultimate, they did a lesbo act for him with Kim fucking them left and right. That plus Bill Clinton agreeing to jack off in front nationwide North Korean TV. Kim likes American movies, he's kidnapped foreign actors actresses and plain tourists in the past to perform these roles.

  • I'd bang Euna, the girl on the right, all night long. I bet she gives great head.

  • The girl on the right, I'd do her all night long.

  • @HectorJW2007 Go with Bringtherain888 to a psychiatrist...you are sick in your head...

  • I'm not dissing them, you numbnuts. Nothing wrong with liking a cute and sexy lady.

  • @bringtherain888

    You are sick men! Go to psychiatrist!

  • i saaw comment about we had to pay our taxes to get them out i am glady i paid for this it was the right thing to do to gett them out and they made an mastake and all people need a 2nd chance

  • I've fallen into North Korea and Can't Get Out! Please bail us out for our mistakes. What the hell were they doing in North Korea. It's not the friendliest country in the world to Americans. When are their books, movies, shows coming out? I bet their going to cash in on this one for sure and Al Gore is going to get a cut of that. We should have let them rot in that hell hole of a country.

  • Why do so many white man marry fugly asian females? Seriously, can you really get aroused by ugly asian broads? I swear, whites are the sickest creatures around.

  • @nicnognic Shame yourself.....you are not very smart i think...one braincell human maybe??

  • @ronaldverh i maybe a one braincell human, but least i know the difference between fugly and "exotic" - something that you caucasians seems to have trouble with.

  • @nicnognic Lol you are making it so obvious that you are jealous.. you are probably ugly and far, correct? guys don't even look at your, correct? poor you....

  • @nicnognic It's because white men owns every ugly asian females on earth. America, asia, europe .. It's like that everywhere. I have seen countless unattractive, lower middle class white guys come to my country to wife/girlfriend shopping. I call them dumpster divers. 9 out of 10 times they end up with chicks like you see on this clip. Bug eyed, extremely asian looking (the chick on the left).

  • @KGuy135 agreed

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  • @crystal91pearl NORTH KOREA AND SOUTH KOREA ARE TOTALLY DIFF COUNTRY..WHO GIVE THE FUCK BOUT K POP RIGHT NOW?THOSE ACTRESSES ARE FRM SOUTH IDIOT..THESE JOURNALISTS BEING HELD IN NORTH

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  • @crystal91pearl I don't think crystal91pearl said anything insulting about Asia, so calm the fck down chaichai. I know there are many comments here but read carefully before you defend Asia.

  • @crystal91pearl 90% of Korean woman have plastic surgery, and many many of them have total reconstructive plastic surgery...just search "celebrity korean plastic surgery" and you will be enlightened ~_~

  • @yumixpeach wtf another comment about korean plastic surgery. y r u obsessed with koreans? dont u got anything better to do. sorryass

  • @yumixpeach ... how did the topic of plastic surgery come up in a video of freed prisoners? Oh let me guess because it's about korea? You really gotta do that man???

  • @KGuy135 lol i have to agree with you on that! All beautiful Asian women (such as myself, jk) end up with Korean/Chinese men. All ugly Asian women with very ugly features, (such as Laura Ling) end up with White men. That is so true!!!

  • ppshchik your'e a dumbass research what the hell they were doing there before you start sounding off like an idiot. It wasnt their fault they were on n korean territory, they were misled there.

  • @songmikej All this guy does is go to other peoples videos and bash on them... He has no videos of his own... This is all he does. Very said for him.

  • @songmikej it always makes me shake my head when somebody tells somebody else to 'research' and calls people 'idiot', when they have wrong answers. Laura Ling admitted that she was aware she was going into North Korea. She was aware it was highly illegal and dangerous. She did it because she thought she could see the "safe houses", and get away with it. This is all from her own mouth.

  • We should revoke those 2 idiot's passports from those bitches, it's their fault for crossing into the North Korean border.

    I hate how people think the governments can bail them out whenever they do reckless things

  • The United States spent considerable resources, economic capital as well as political capital, getting Ling Laura Zhimei and Lee Euna Seung-un out of North Korea. Their juvenile stunt backfiredbut then again, juvenile stunts often do. They broke international lawbut the tax payers in America had to cover the tab for springing them from jail. When do they start making payments to refund fellow citizens for their stupidity?

  • Youre so bothered by the tiny fraction of a cent you had to pay for these people to return home to their families, who were reporting on child trafficking in order to raise awareness and to get it stopped - shouldn't you be working right now? Think of all the money you could've earned while writing your comment!

  • "how could they cross NK" its like saying how could the jews stay in Germany.

  • You better not profit from this with a book deal! If you burn the US for this you suck. We lost diplomatic capital over this crap and your ambition.

  • who give damn about you 2...?

    im more concerned about the starving people

  • I gave a damn. I prayed as others did for their safe return. I find your comment very odd that you care about starving people but not those who are wrongly held captive. Convenient humanity.

  • I am glad that they are safe though. Happy that they came back to their families safe and sound.

  • I'm surprised to see a lot of the comments that are condemning what these two did get thumbs down.

    Yeah, you can obviously point out the ones that are childish and stupid, but if you take time to read them, they are right that Laura Ling and Euna Lee were in the wrong and that (not sure if this is true or not. Haven't really been too taken with this story) they have exposed people who live in N. Korea with their videos and are now being "dealt" with their government.

  • That would be your momma, Mussolini worshipper.

  • But they are famous now.....

  • welcome back girls, cant wait to see more reporting done again with those vanguard segments. ignore all the stuipd comments, people dont understand the issues about the border there. Either way, you girls are looking healthy and be waiting for more videos!

  • How many innocent people need to die for these two people's reporting? How much blood is enough?

  • More lies. These two disgust me.

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  • Now they are trying to blame the guide for they stupidity.

  • the fuck were you two idiots doing over there?

  • extremely glad that you two are safe & sound. it would be really interesting to hear your experience in NK, but i understand that it's painful to recall those memories right now. but in any case, i hope you guys will live humbly and wisely too.

  • Bill Clinton is a true hero for going to NK and freeing these women.

  • So is Wolverine!

  • @criskity for sure, i dont agree with alot of his politics, but i always believed he had the best intentions and hes a genuinely good person who just makes mistakes like anybody

  • Something tells me no FAUX News reporter would have the balls to step near the North Korea/China border. Kudos for having the guts that it takes to report internationally; still, try using your heads next time, seriously. It sounds like you two handled your planning very clumsily.

  • coccioloneus i could not agree with you more. during interigation of COURSE north korean agents wanted to punish any person involved in bringing outside influences or destructive news against the government. THEY ARE COMMUNIST after all. luara ling wrote that she and euna were left alone with their belongings at first. this was the time when they swallowed their notes and destroyed film to protect their sources. they are US nationals, the defectors would be killed because they are not US nationl

  • US nationals are just human. however we all know you cannot kill a US national without a price. we are the united states after all. however north korean agents kill their own people without hesatation. espicially ones who are destructive against the government. im not sayin larua ling and euna had a picknic over in north korea. i am just saying they had status of being a foriegner. north koreans dont have that status. laura ling write that their suffering in jail is nothing compared to n. korean

  • That guide was a fucking asshole.

  • in retrospeck laura said that she is not sure if the guide set a trap or the true intentions of the guide. the guide did make noise (whistling) that alerted the north korean border gaurds. laura also said that in the end it was the reporters decision to follow the guide into north korea. ultimatley, it was their decision to follow the guide. that is what laura wrote.

  • hahahha

  • That guide that they had is resposible for their captivity. What a bastard he was to do this to them.

  • there is new news from the reporters today. the reporters said their guide brought them across the river into the north korean border. the reporters trusted the guide, they think the guide alerted the north korean border gaurds when the reporters were in north korea. they were only there for 1 minute. then they ran back to china where the north korean border gaurds dragged them back to north korea. the reporters swallowed any evidence and destroyed tape that would get any of their sources killed

  • they did not destroy the evidence and tapes. It has been reported that north Korean government confiscated all the tapes and the defectors shown on the tape were hunted down.

  • Euna you need to gain some weight, you are really cute but look anorexic

  • iam currently living in north korea and i say these 2 women have crossed the border,they have been dealt with, trust me, raped up the ass and everything..as like everyone else leaving a comment i know everything! shit dont question my freedom of speech!!

  • how can you live in north korea and have freedom of speach? are you one of the elite uper-class? how can they even let you go on youtube? aren't they communist? i am sure you broke several laws even being on this site.

  • I'm just glad Laura and Euna are safe!

    And for all you haters: Shame on you, you're more worried about you're reputation then anything else, instead of leaving hate mail why don't you show some support? >:(

  • Well if America and Americans stop fucking messing with other people's business this wouldn't have happened. This country is fucked up as it is, fixed that first before you act all high and mighty as if you're the moral authority of the world.

  • ...they were simply reporting, doing their jobs, not going around there acting like they own the place so STFU

  • @jiraya350 NOW I WANT AN EGGROLL

  • watch where you step next time lol. i have a feeling they could be spies, if they sent clinton over there, than you know something is going on man.

  • well you 2 ladies don't try to be come a cheap hero anymore, your lucky the Nth Korea did send you free!!!

  • To all of the haters: You're ignorance is excused. You do not understand the importance of investigative journalism to oppressed people all over the world without a voice or global representation. Laura and Euna are co-producers of one of the most innovative news segments of our time, Vanguard. They were arrested because they were documenting the human trafficking of South Korean women into North Korea to be used as sex slaves.

  • brunch dumb bitches!!!!!

  • jina31582 - All you guys have no ideas what these women have done, there are people executed, jailed, deported, shut downed organizations, man hunting due to exposure of video filmed which has confiscated by chinese police. Shame and shame on Laura and Euna, your life will be shameless, you never will have peace in minds.

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  • My final opinion for this post:

    Since when should we, U.S. citizens, be so critical of reporters' illegal entry into a foreign country? Look at the wars we have now (Iraq, Afghanistan), and the reporters there! Ask the constituents of those countries, and they'd sure agree that the U.S. invaded illegally.

  • Lanierd, Josephgrovers, et al. Do the world a favor, and prevent the further exposure of your bigoted and degraded mind. I highly doubt that you would react so acerbically if these were two white men who were attempting to reveal a worsening humanitarian crisis in a volatile country that poses a direct nuclear threat to the U.S. It's most probable that instead, you'd be applauding and praising them for such heroism.

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  • Many of north koreans blood have been sacrificed due to videos filmed by Laura and Euna, also many of south koreans are angry due to exposing humanitarian organizations for escaped north koreans in china due to video.

  • look the bottom line is this their actions got a lot of arrested, killed and who maybe some jus disappeared over what theu did fuck these dumb ass bitches their endangered peoples because of this i say fuck em. the north korean shouldn't taken them out in cold court yard and slap a coupe rounds in their skulls

  • 5 orphanages for escaped north koreans have been exposed and closed in China, south koreans who organized and helped north korean in China have been jailed and deported due to video filmed. Many of north korean family caught in china due to video returned back to north kore, some of them have been executed and jailed in concentration camp. SHAMELESS ON LAURA and EUNA , many people are suffering due to exposed video by chinese police., some are dead already.

  • i would rather be held by north korea than al queda to be honest, i wouldnt like my head gettin chopped off.

  • uh, North Korea is actually worse, imo. In many, if not most, cases female prisoners are raped and/or beaten (not to death), then left out on arid fields for birds and maggots to feed off of them. Male prisoners undergo other torture methods that lead to a slow death.

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  • i wonder when we will see the consequence of your release.

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  • These chicks fucked up big time. Stupid current tv .

  • I'm glad the two Americans are back home, it certainly would be terrible to die in a North Korean prison camp; a grizzly fate they clearly didn't deserve. But here's a little advice for next time: STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM NORTH KOREA, DUMMIES!

  • they were on the south korea side and taking pictures of north korea the north korean soldiers came accross and took them across the border into north korea

  • I don't doubt that what the NK soldiers did constituted a terrorist act, but come on, those two women shouldn't have gone anywhere near that place, especially not snapping pictures. If you visit the 38th parallel and so much as point your finger at the other side, you can be arrested by SK military police.

  • Euna and Ling, It is great that you are back, but you committed a very foolish act. You cannot illegally enter into a sovereign nation (irregardless of the intent). You harmed the lives of some (North Koreans) who were seeking asylum in South Korea, and you may have hindered the collection of key information by the IC (Intelligence Community). You could have also harmed diplomatic communication and commitments with NK.

  • did you really have to write so much lani . . .

  • are you a nerd? is that where your name comes from ?

  • don't justify the actions of North Korea. thats like telling a rape victim that she shouldn't have been wearing such a low cut shirt. next time I think you look hungry, I'll forcefeed you a hamburger and tell you you were asking for it. The only "diplomatic communication" we need with the NK is a promise to release a reproduction of the Tsar Bomba should they try to pull something like this against American citizens ever again.

    Appeasement is bullshit.

  • Laura and Euna, it is great that you are home, but do not ever commit this foolish act again. Nobody has the right to illegally cross into a sovereign nation. You ruined the lives of some (North Koreans) that were seeking asylum in China and you may have harmed the IC's (Intelligence Community) collection of information (HUMINT); you could have harmed diplomatic talks and commitments with NK, as well.

  • go back

  • I agree

  • Best of luck getting back to your normal lives!!!

  • your knowledge on N.Koreans. that's it.

    i knw nothing about you or any other knowledge you may have

    people all of this comments section are posting comments , but that's b/c they're ignorant

  • obviously from your comment.

  • I hope both of you realized that there was no margin for error and left other north Koreans hiding in China at high risk.

  • bill clinton is god

  • how do i knw what ?

  • You people are retarded. They were doing a small documentary and videotaping NK from what they thought was the Chinese side of the China/NK border. Take time to find out info before you make dumb comments.

  • Apparently reporting the truth = idiocy. I suppose we oughta make up more stories about Michael Jackson instead. At least he hasn't done anything to make other countries look down on us. Durr.

  • god bless you women...

  • Some more reporters sticking they're noses where they shouldn't, And they were surprised when they get in trouble and put in jail, Unlike in America the rest of the world does know life is bad there, But wait don't alot of US companies have company's in those parts of the world b/c the life is crappy so they don't have to pay them an actually wage.

  • stupid bitches, got us into so much trouble.

  • And it's ridiculous how they dont get any punishment at all from the US after they got into north korea illegally. They put tons of lives into trouble, especially bill clinton's.

  • What a boneheaded comment!! You don't think they were punished enough?? They spent nearly 5 mos. in a slave state, dummy. There was no assurance they wouldn't die in prison in that hellhole!! Nobody here was endangered. Educate yourself,fool, All they did was set foot (barely) in a police state.

  • You dont understand what they did to our country, we must have lost respect from other countries. Other countries must be thinking "stupid americans, what were they doing." North Koreans would think "haha americans, going up to us on their knees begging to have them back." They got us into tons of trouble, we had to get all those people and make an arrangement causing them trouble too. Look at clinton's face in the pictures, he didn't enjoy it. That country is hell and they brought them there.

  • They had no business being there in the first place, why did they even go? Do they understand what they do to people there? They go anyway, why? Just to make a quick buck, do they have common sense? It doesn't seem like it.

  • so you're saying that reporting the truth is wrong and that keeping America's reputation good is more important?

    And that people risking their lives for the truth is only done for money?

    If anything you're degrading America's reputation -.-

  • Yeah exactly, these stupid girls messed up our reputation. Look at my comments, look how many people agree with me. You think these retards are more important than tons of taxpayer money and alot of America's reputation?

  • It was irresponsible for you two to enter North Korean soil knowing full well what possible consequences there would be for a story. What's worse is how Laura used her sisters fame to get special treatment and a special release courtesty (and paid for) by the United States government.

    What's worse is we had to appease a 4th world dictator and gave him credibility by awarding you two clemency you gave Kim Jung Il (some) legitimacy to continue his brutal and murderous regime, shame on you.

  • irresponsible? or it was deliberate action?

  • I still love Laura and Euna, but I'm still waiting for an explanation.

  • i am sure you will never get the true one.

  • for those people who are saying the most STUPID things ever , shut the hell up & get some knowledge. North Korea is hell , & yet the people living there don't knw it. they don't knw ANYTHING about the world except theres. they think they're living the luxury life. they were taught to HATE & KILL americans.

    Launa Lee's sister went there & came back safely w/ a documentary you stupid asses need to watch. It's so informative , & once you realize what you said was WRONG & STUPID , then you'll knw.

  • i don't want to listen to your life story

  • WTH no they shouldn't you don't knw anything

  • i thought they'd never thank us for saving their asses from slavory.

    its about time

  • Says the one who's profile is filled with video games and a strip tease video on your front page. Get a life.

  • So having videos on youtube is a violation of youtube law? Go reeducate you dumb ass before you even type another word to me.

  • You're lucky to get out of that hell hole. But allow me to ask: Do you think, that what you have done was very very irresponsable? In fact even "stupid"? Do you know how many people had to run their asses off for you? Or were you part of a greater scheme? Questions, questions...

  • Hey, glad you both made it out safely :)

  • wtf?

  • well next time try crass us maxican porder americans will shoot your ass you don't need to go n korea to make news that your own country couse there shoot and kill i was there ones almost get my ass shoot

  • we, American Koreans, should protest Not to describe Euna Lee as a Korean Americans.

  • try not trespassing and you would not have been arrested

  • two mixed marriage Asian female used as American symbol, thats all.

  • gtaa

  • they were breaking North Korea's Law! they were prisoned by their rules. stop acting victims.. they took that risk for their own gain as reporters.. what the heck people

  • I wonder what kind of deal Clinton made with North Korea to bring them back to the U.S..

  • North korean law? We spit on North koreas laws. NK is a shit country that should be overtaken by the western world. Kick those thugs out and liberate the people.

  • Welcome home Laura and Euna. We are so happy to see you safe again. Thanks for the video. I'm sorry to see some clueless people leaving comments here. Don't let them distract you. You 2 are the best !

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  • Al gore is stooped for sending you there. He knew better.

  • blacks and hispanics never get into these types of shit. why is it only whites and now asians do.

    does lil kim like westernized asians or traditional asians better?

  • STFU you racist failbot.