Thank You From Laura and Euna

On March 17, 2009, our colleagues, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, were arrested by
North Korean guards while reporting along the China-North Korea border.
After 140 days detained in North Korea, Laura and Euna returned home.
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[BWaygal117]

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

[HectorJW2007]

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

[yourtruenorth]

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.

[VhUgGz]

@tybash Kim* Jong* Il*. Lmao...

[jambydarl]

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

[konman001]

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).

[reg12269]

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

[mplsmn1975]

@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.

[bckmma]

@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]

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

[mplsmn1975]

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!