Anyone who wander near enough the border to happen over it by mistake, or close enough for the other side to grab them and claim a border incursion, deserves to be in jail. It's patently unacceptable for the US to be placed in the position of having to cow tow to a regime like this because a couple of ignorant ‘journalists’ didn't have enough common sense to stay out of trouble.
I'm glad they're coming home safely, but they deserve to be taken to task for their stupidity. What is there about liberal ‘journalist’ that lets them get blinded to the true nature and danger of these regimes in search of a story.
I would serve very precise notice on every journalist, real and would-be, that borders with unfriendly nations are no-man’s land and if you go there and get yourself captured you're on your own. Spare us the tears of your friends, family and employer. Consider yourself on notice.
My guess, prestige (We made an American President come to the North and kow-tow.) and stimulus money.
There is much more to learn. Negotiating with these terrorists is a very bad precedence. Why did a disgraced ex president go? Did he take money? Were the women intelligence agents? Inquiring minds want to know!!