Ling, Lee Convicted in Pyongyang

June 8, 2009
 

Current TV reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee, held in North Korea since March on vague charges, received “harsher sentences than many outsider expected:” reportedly twelve years of “reform through labor.”

The media wonder: Will Al Gore, Current TV’s co-founder, go to Pyongyang to negotiate their release?

Liz Cox Barrett is a writer at CJR.