North Korea Will Try American Reporters in June
Looks like it could be one of those summers as North Korea ratchets up tensions in the area. Reuters reports today that the North has announced that two American journalists arrested under charges of illegal entry with “hostile intent” last March will be tried in a North Korean court on June 4.
Stated the KCNA news agency in one of their typical one-line zingers: “The Central Court of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) decided to try the American journalists on June 4 according to the indictment of the competent organ.”
The two journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, were working on an assignment near the China-North Korea border for the U.S. based Current TV when they were arrested in the early hours of March 17, according to a missionary who told the Associated Press.
More:
Latest at [Reuters]
March 19th story [NY Daily News]
Laura Ling’s [Current.TV page]
Euna Lee’s [Current.TV page]
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