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The Danny Trail Killings (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Look, I like President Barack Obama as much as the next guy. He's done a decent job of leading America in his first year. Remember how you were feeling this same time during Bush's Presidency? You were probably scared shitless of airplanes, buildings and Arabs. Okay so this time around Americans don't have jobs so they aren't panicking about things that will never kill them. That stil doesn't explain...
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The Whole Delivery (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
Like continuing to develop the ability to make nuclear bombs. North Korea is in the final stages of enriching uranium, the country's state media has said, a process that could give it a second way to make nuclear bombs. According to the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), North Korean officials have informed the UN Security Council that the process of enrichment was entering "the completion...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
Los Angeles - The two US journalists captured and held in North Korea for months before being released last month revealed the first details of their ordeal on Wednesday. Laura Ling and Euna Lee, reporters for Current TV, wrote on its website that th...
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L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
Laura Ling and Euna Lee say they followed their guide across a river and were back on Chinese soil when they were seized. 'We still don't know if we were lured into a trap,' they write. The two U.S. television reporters who were imprisoned in North Korea for more than four months said Tuesday that they never intended to cross a frozen river into the communist country.
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L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 08/23/2009
Some missionaries and activists have gone deeper underground, amid fears that North Korea and China have gained information on their networks through their arrest of Euna Lee and Laura Ling. A clandestine network that helps North Koreans escape through China has gone deeper underground because of fears over what authorities in both countries have learned from the capture of two U.S. journalists who...
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BURMA DIGEST (Free subscription) | 08/22/2009
Why? Now that Laura Ling and Euna Lee are home from North Korea and John Yettaw has been freed from a Myanmar prison, that’s surely the question. Why were three idiots worth rescue missions by a former U.S. president and a serving U.S. senator? They weren’t kidnapped; they weren’t hostages. All three knowingly broke the [...]
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FP Passport (Free subscription) | 08/19/2009
A great crumb from the Washington Independent 's Dave Weigel: nearly four in five Americans agreed, in a Fox News poll, that former President Bill Clinton's trip to North Korea -- during which he successfully lobbied for the release of jailed journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee -- will not encourage the kidnapping of more Americans. One comment, though. Ling and Lee -- and John Yettaw, the American...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 08/19/2009
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday that information her husband brought back from North Korea has been "extremely helpful" by providing a window into what's happening in the reclusive country. But it didn't change the Obama administration's position on North Korea, which is under pressure from the U.S. and its allies to end its nuclear weapons program....
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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Ask a Korean! translated two blog entries from a famous North Korea blog, Nambukstory, that commented on Clinton's visit and the release of Euna Lee and Laura Ling.
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Black Political Thought (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton got a little ticked off today when a Congolese university student at a town hall forum in Kinshasa asked her for former President Bill Clinton's opinion of the World Bank's concerns about a multibillion dollar Chinese loan offer to the Democratic Republic Congo. an international matter. "My husband is not secretary of state. I am," an obviously...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 08/09/2009
Shane Bauer speaks during the 2008 United Nations Association Film Festival in Berkeley. Bauer, 27, is now jailed with two friends, accused of entering Iran illegally. A new Web site offers $1,000 a month for globe-trotting correspondents willing to file regular dispatches from around the world. A 39-year-old online journalist who describes himself as an "independent war correspondent" is...
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News: Opinion -- KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 08/08/2009
Former President Bill Clinton's coup in securing the release of California journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee from North Korea is a reminder of the value of diplomacy. Not caving to the enemy, not pandering to terrorists, but the art of getting things done without having to launch a missile or an invasion. When lives are at stake, you just can't beat it. Clinton had pursued diplomatic relations with...
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