The two U.S. journalists released from North Korea last month after five months in captivity said "the psychological wounds of imprisonment are slow to heal."
The detained journalists "regret" crossing the North Korea border - in what might have been a trap
"It was maybe 30 seconds, and everything just got sort of chaotic," she says
Journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee told Ling's sister they were treated humanely in North Korea, and they believe they weren't sent to hard-labor camps because they have medical conditions, Lisa Ling said Friday.
It was a heartwarming sight: Laura Ling and Euna Lee landing on U.S. soil and being reunited with their families.
"There were rocks in her rice," says sister Lisa Ling. "She's anxious just to eat fresh food"
Laura Ling on Wednesday expressed the shock she and Euna Lee felt when former President Clinton showed up in Pyongyang, North Korea, to help secure the two journalists' release.
"We're home and free!" says Ling after their 5-month North Korean ordeal
"We are counting the seconds to hold Laura and Euna in our arms," they say in a statement
Laura Ling and Euna Lee are pardoned after Bill Clinton visits the country and headed to Los Angeles to see their families
The two U.S. journalists released from North Korea last month after five months in captivity said "the psychological wounds of imprisonment are slow to heal."
The detained journalists "regret" crossing the North Korea border - in what might have been a trap
"It was maybe 30 seconds, and everything just got sort of chaotic," she says
Journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee told Ling's sister they were treated humanely in North Korea, and they believe they weren't sent to hard-labor camps because they have medical conditions, Lisa Ling said Friday.
It was a heartwarming sight: Laura Ling and Euna Lee landing on U.S. soil and being reunited with their families.
"There were rocks in her rice," says sister Lisa Ling. "She's anxious just to eat fresh food"
Laura Ling on Wednesday expressed the shock she and Euna Lee felt when former President Clinton showed up in Pyongyang, North Korea, to help secure the two journalists' release.
"We're home and free!" says Ling after their 5-month North Korean ordeal
"We are counting the seconds to hold Laura and Euna in our arms," they say in a statement
Laura Ling and Euna Lee are pardoned after Bill Clinton visits the country and headed to Los Angeles to see their families
The United States has dropped its request that two American journalists imprisoned in North Korea be released on humanitarian grounds, and is seeking amnesty instead, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said.
After weeks of silence, the sister of one of the two American journalists imprisoned in North Korea finally got a phone call.
The Swedish ambassador met with two imprisoned U.S. journalists in Pyongyang on Tuesday, a U.S. State Department spokesman said, in their first meeting since a North Korean court handed the reporters their 12-year sentence.
North Korea is warning the world to stay out of part of its eastern waters for 16 days, starting Thursday, saying it will hold a military drill, Japanese officials said.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that the United States could defend itself should North Korea launch a missile toward Hawaii and that U.S. officials are carefully monitoring the reclusive nation's military.
Family members of two U.S. journalists imprisoned in North Korea said they are worried about the women's well-being and are pleading for their release.
North Korea's state media released a "detailed report" Tuesday claiming that American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee entered the country illegally in order to record material for a "smear campaign" against the reclusive communist state.
The families of two U.S. journalists sentenced to 12 years of hard labor in North Korea pleaded for clemency, urging the communist government to "show compassion" and release them.
They call on North Korea to show compassion for the broadcaster's sister and her friend
Laura Ling and Euna Lee now must await U.S. diplomatic efforts with North Korea
Two U.S. journalists will stand trial for alleged crimes in North Korea, the government announced Friday.
Two American journalists will be tried in a North Korean court on June 4, Pyongyang's official news agency said Thursday.
After nearly three months of maintaining their silence, the families of two U.S. journalists detained in North Korea are taking to the airwaves this week to lobby for their release as the women go on trial Thursday.
As the trial for two American journalists began Thursday in North Korea, a former Japanese journalist has recounted his experience while he was imprisoned in the country for about two years.
Observers have been barred from a trial for two American journalists who were detained while covering the plight of North Korean defectors living along the China-North Korea border, a U.S. State Department spokesman said.
North Korea has concluded an investigation of two detained American journalists, and they will stand trial, according to the nation's state-run news service, KCNA.
A journalist in Iran and two others in North Korea represent a tiny percentage of journalists worldwide who have been arrested for their work, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, an advocacy group.
Al Gore, the detained journalist's employer, isn't commenting "given the sensitivity of the situation," a spokesman says
With an indictment looming, the US is using diplomacy to try to free journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee
Reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee had been working on a story about North Korean refugees
An ex-convict suspected of killing two people and sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl in South Carolina over the weekend was captured Tuesday in Augusta, Georgia, the U.S. Marshals Service said.
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