NYTimes.com: N. Korea sentences American journalists to 12 years hard labour
June 8th, 2009Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Online Journalism, Press freedom and ethics
Two American journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, have been sentenced to 12 years of hard labour in North Korea ‘in a case widely seen as a test of how far the isolated Communist state was willing to take its confrontation with the United States,’ the New York Times reports.
“Ms. Ling and Ms. Lee were on a reporting assignment from Current TV, a San Francisco-based media company co-founded by Al Gore, the former vice president, when they were detained by the soldiers.”
Tags: Al Gore, Current TV, Euna Lee, Laura Ling, media, N. Korea, New York Times, North Korea, San Francisco, the New York Times, United States, vice president
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