Posted on 06/07/2009 9:24:08 PM PDT by doug from upland
Headline tells the story
I suspect these two have probably been raped several times and NK is trying to hide it by keeping the girls away from authorities.
Idiots.
I think you are being harsh. Real journalism, as opposed to the opinion rants and regurgitation of administration fairy tales we get most everywhere else, is a risky business. A lot of the great war photographers of Vietnam died getting those shots. Even more WW2 correspondents died.
Laura Ling's work is featured on a cable TV network "Current". This is a new network and obviously aimed at the Gen X and lower demographic. Lots of web links and hand-held cameras.
This past weekend they played a one hour special that featured Laura Ling as the reporter / camera person and apparently had two others working with her. (3 person production team including the reporter). The subject was the drug wars of Mexico. This is a subject which I am more familiar than most with, as I had a blog dedicated to it this for two years.
It was a truly excellent show. She interviewed police chiefs, newspaper editors, army commanders, farmers, peasants, undertakers, and ordinary mexicans. She went where I've never seen the big guys go: right to the heart of Sinoloa, on patrol with the Border patrol and the Tijuana police. She went so deep into the Mexican heroin and marijuana growing region that her Army escorts refused to go furhter.
It was very well produced piece that really put the problems in Mexico in perspective. I was completely impressed by her reporting. It was four times as thoughtful and in depth as anything one sees on CNN or Fox.
Previously I had thought that Ms. Ling was perhaps a foolish leftist masquarading as a reporter who deserved what she got. Having seen her work she strikes me as among the very best TV journalists that young America has produced, a very brave reporter, who deserves the support of all Americans.
I will certainly be urging the Obama administration to do more to free Ling and her companion reporter.
Once they got to Pyongyang under the closer control of the KWP there, they were probably cut some slack, but if it occured (highly likely) the damage has already been done.
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Appreciate your first hand knowledge and viewpoints.
Unfortunately, we can quite clearly extrapolate that the two of them then did push their luck, in fact, and probably entered North Korean territory--an EXTREMELY inadvisable and illegal act, but where caught when they did not expect it. You would have to be as dumb as paint to do this in a right mind. The sheer terror they must have felt at that moment, with little hope of getting back over the river and into China. As such, sad for them, but they are doing a terrible disservice to the United States and our whole Northeast Asian foreign policy, whilst the security of millions of South Koreans and Japanese are being threatened by North Korea hangs in the balance due to nuclear weapons development and threats to start warlike activity in the next few weeks (following already provocative actions).
Look for the DPRK to announce that they are building two new supermax prisons for female..one located right next to their missile launch base, the other on top of their underground nuclear sites..one woman to be held in each locatgion..
It is a real possibility now.
Most Americans are viewing this in terms of being thrown into a Turkish prison in the 1960s, or into a Mexican jail, something that can be wiggled out of eventually. It is at least 10x as bad, and is unfathomable from a Western/Democracy perspective, and I would say is even twice or three times as bad as Iran. These are just completely different animals.
Disagree, my friend..the NK’s think they wioll be anble to exchange them for some concessions, possibly food..it’s the way their minds work, because it’s always been successful for them in the past. When that regime is finally overturned, I fear that what we find out will make the holocaust look like Disneyworld..
The Al Gore credentials liklely got them another 3 years. He’s got a lot of pull...with but real commies.
I’ve read about what goes on in those camps.
It’s heartbreaking.
Can we trade Chrissy Mathhew’s for them? N. Korea can have his going on American television talking about the tingling up his leg for Der. Leader. Not much of a switch in job requirements from what he’s doing now.
In all seriousness. I pray these two ladies have the strength of Angels and that God blesses an protects them as they try to live through this nightmare.
Those two idiots no doubt would have known this, yet, they still tempted a nasty fate. Liberals are the dumbest people.
I wonder where NKs dispersing nukes to our enemies fits in the big picture. Holding these women hostage could also be a deterrent to what they are really planning right now.
If there aren't any adults left, with a voice, at the Pentagon or the DOD we are in for it down the road. Our enemies are now drawing the new lines in the sand and erasing our old ones. We live in very dangerous times.
Gore is going to have to fork over some of his $100 Mil. fortune to buy them freedom.
It is Nazi Concentration Camps in our times. Maybe even worse.
People either don’t want to know or refuse to believe it though.
I’ve made people very angry when trying to tell them how bad it is.
You tell libs the truth and it never fails to anger them.
I thought that was her as well and was doing some a quick google to figure it out.
Lisa Ling has done some very good reporting over the years, hitting on many dangerous and controversial stories. Lisa Ling even had the guys to go into prison in El Salvador that is run by, owned and 90% MS-13. Guts must run in that family.
I know, it’s all a set up, so obozo can get them out a be the ONE
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