Have you all been paying attention to this news story about Laura Ling and Euna Lee?? They are reporters for Current TV (who were doing a documentary on women refugees at the border of China/North Korea and were captured for allegedly crossing the border into North Korea without permission. I believe the camera guy and Chinese guide both escaped arrest…it will be interesting to hear their accounts of what actually happened.
Euna Lee is a wife and a mother to a four year old little girl.
Laura Ling has a husband at home and her family (well both families) are rallying for the safe return of both girls.
Does she look familiar? Laura Ling is the sister to popular journalist/actress Lisa Ling who often shares her documentaries on Oprah.
It is believed that they’ve been captured as bargaining chips after the US and other countries have expressed irritation with North Korea’s desire to launch a “satellite” in what we think is an attempt to test their long range missiles. Hmmm. I wonder who they could be practicing those on….
Anyways, North Korea is NOT a country you want to be captured in. They make their own rules and can arrest you for so much as publicly disagreeing with the political system. They are saying Laura Ling and Euna Lee trespassed into their country and committed “hostile acts”.
I’m assuming the “hostile acts” might have been resisting arrest, but that’s just me trying to figure out what kind of “hostile acts” two women might commit against North Korean crazy ass officials.
Unless they had a gun…in which case, can you really blame them?
Here’s the part that really hurts my heart. The women have been interrogated and tried at the highest court in North Korea. That means there was no hearing and no public viewing. It also means there is no appealing the outcome.
The outcome??
12 YEARS of hard labor in a labor camp!! Holy F word. We have to get these women out. I am officially emotionally invested in this story and let it be known that North Korea scares the fuck out of me.
Lisa Ling is urging us to lend support by signing this petition!! Spread the word!!