ABC News reports Kim Jong Il pardoned Laura Ling and Euna Lee and ordered their release from a local prison earlier today (August 4).
The two American journalists were arrested earlier this year after straying into the country while reporting on the Chinese-North Korean border. They were convicted and sentenced to 12 years hard labour in June.
In exchange, North Korea has two demands: a visit from a high-profile emissary and an apology.
UPDATE: Laura’s sister Lisa Ling tells the Los Angeles Times that the family cannot yet comment.
“Everything is just so delicate,” she says. “We’re going to wait it out a while longer. We’re on pins and needles.”
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I am SOOOO happy to hear this. Thank you President Clinton!
What is George Bush up to? Other than smoking his bong?
Bill Clinton is still the man! I hope these two morons learned their lesson. Stay the fuck out of enemy territory from now on! Even those Americans caught hiking in Iran. How STUPID can you fucken be?????
Man, Hilary must be PISSSED !!
She talks to them and they laugh at her, then her husband goes over and they journalists are pardoned within hours!
Great job, President Clinton!
Bush’s response to journalists imprisoned in North Korea would be to invade Portugal.
Bush and Cheney would have started another war. Where are all the Republcans today? When are they going to wake up?
How much $$$$$$ and technology did slick willy the rapist have to fork over this time to Dearest leader Kim Jon IL.
You people are so navive.
Do you really think the nut job in NK isn’t taunting and humiliating the US yet again and BHussein is a weak man.
Wow this is amazing news! Clinton has really done something great. To be honest, aside from his inability to keep it in his pants, he wasn’t a bad President. He just turned himself into a joke. I’ve heard nothing but good things from him since the end of his term.
Bill Clinton is now, and always has been, the real deal !!! Good Job !!!
Clinton is awesone!
anybody agree that a deal HAD to be in place before he went over there?
what did we give up and when will you gd libs get upset that nk is testing nukes and killing millions of their own people?
nm, let’s all feeel goooood.
Well Adam–sounds like you are ready to go to war with NK !!! As i’m sure you were ready to go to war in Afganistan and in Iraq–bet you thought Bush was a great Pres. didn’t you ??? LOL…
mike, i didn’t say that, but it sounds like you want to suck obama’s dick in the back of a limo while he’s smoking crack!
my point is that this bs has nothing to do with more serious issues, like millions of dead koreans and nuclear proliferation…
but sorry to ruin your peacenik buzz.
Ugh technically we still are at war with NK.
America is still protecting freedom loving South Koreans.
WHAT DID THE USA GIVE UP IN RETURN FOR THESE BITCHES?
Mike needs to do some research on Mahmoud and Kim Jong Il.
It is chilling when you see it in their own words.
Don’t expect the Main Stream Media (Obama Media)
to tell you, for hell will freeze over.
reggie,
you do know that fdr invaded germany after being attacked by japan right?
do any of you ‘diplomatic’ freaks care that a democratic revolution took place in iran and honduras and our prez was too busy dryhumping mahmoud and fidel to notice or even care?
i mean, two (2) opportunities for ‘peaceful regime change’ were handed to hussein (obama) on a platinum platter and he did absolutely nothing.
how about this, brag about diplomacy when it actually accomplishes something meaningful.
then again, democratic protesters in honduras and iran absolutely hate obama now, so maybe something was accomplished.
Weakness and appeasement is the reason Russian Nuclear subs are at this moment patrolling the eastern coast of America as we post on gossip sites.
Act of aggression no.
The subs are in international waters and we do it all the time…..