North Korea Pardons Jailed American Journalists After Visit By Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton & Kim Jong-il

This week former US President Bill Clinton traveled to North Korea and was able to talk leader Kim Jong-il into pardoning the two jailed American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee. They were arrested in March after entering North Korea while doing a report for Current TV and subsequently sentenced to 12 years of hard labor.

via New York Times

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