BennyHollywood (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Vanguard correspondent Mariana van Zeller traveled to Sri Lanka during the final days of the country's civil war to see how one of the world's most powerful insurgencies, the Tamil Tigers, was finally defeated. Vanguard Presents: Notes from a War on Terror ***Vanguard is Current TV's original documentary series. Led by correspondents Laura Ling, Mariana van Zeller, Christof Putzel, Adam Yamaguchi and...
Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 09/13/2009
David Beckham has incurred the wrath of North Korean leader Kim-Jong II after posing with freed American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee.
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...
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...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
The journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee said they were “dragged” by North Korean guards from China.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
The journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee said they were “dragged” by North Korean guards from China.
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.
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...
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 [...]
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...
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....
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.
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...
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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