I wondered why this deadbeat inserted himself into this mess. Interesting that he probably precipitated it.
I have mixed feelings about this.
It’s better than the way the media is treated in the US.
/sarcasm
So, how many North Koreans have we caught peddling counterfeit u.s. currency over the years...hundreds? what have we done with them? returned them pronto, no questions asked. When are we going to catch the next counterfeiter? Monday, then Tuesday, then Wednesday.
This crappy little two bit country doesn’t have the least fear of the USA.
OMG. Those poor women.
That’s OK. All Obama has to do is TALK to the North Koreans, and everything will be OK. The journalists will be released....won’t they?
This one is gonna be a tough nut to crack.
They entered a country without it’s permission, in order to obtain information that the government would rather not reveal.
Call it journalism all you want, it’s very possible by international law itself this is espionage.
It’s okay for North Korea to do this, but we can’t send stupid illegals here back to where they came from?
I guess I don’t see the problem here... You go to a country that has wacky justice and you voluntary subject your self to it... End of story. If you can’t do the time, don’t do the “crime”.
This was predicted right here on FR on our beloved FR North Korea Threads just last week by Freeper TLR (who knows his stuff) and yours truly.
They will stay in a guest house in Pyongyang and not sent to the camp (as another Freeper was apt to say, "they will rattle (Obama's) cage to see if he gets the squirts"), now that they have ratcheted up attention. The sentence was pronounced by Kim Jong il, and merely rubber stamped and carried out by this "Central Court" which is nothing more than a Hollywood set in downtown Pyongyang. With these two Al Gore reporters up there, North Korea firmly has its grasping hands around the balls of Obama, and he is more or less beholden to them now. Even the emotionalism expressed here on FR and which will soon spread across the USA, all is bearing out the intricate, calculative strategy and is playing precisely into the the DPRK's hands. They create something of great value in doing this, and thus raise the stakes, and proliferate their aces that they hold against us in this game. Obama will have literally no choice but to capitulate, to enter bilateral talks (something they want), and to submit entirely. With a human face to it, with these liberal reporters now a So-ho and Berkeley cause celebre, the entire security of Japan and South Korea will be given a back seat while the case of these two are elevated. It is bad enough that dying Chia Pet is actually indulging in nuclear blackmail, now he and his co-horts are just adding another human, tabloid-ish face to it to get the attention of Joe Sixpack in the US who may well not know what a North Korea is but knows what a Lisa Ling is. You can count on the MSM to Stradivarius this thing to death; exactly what North Korea wants.
These are the Vanguard of Current Connections of Koss, plus stories he has shown activity in for the past few months. You can see China is evident as is Naro wars.
These investigative journalists on the Vanguard side, if you take some time to track their assignments; are the "extreme sports" of the "investigative news world". MarianaVanZeller, for instance, rode the “Death Train”; ajbintl ( last online 5 months ago) had earlier snuck into North Korea. They are Reporters Without Borders.
Some have commented in effect.."Why is current suppressing stories about Euna Lee and Laura Ling? They have just been sentenced to 12 years of hard labor. I would appreciate it if Current gave some statement or... ”
Note: Koss went into Russia with Anderson Cooper back in the early 90's.
Stiff note to follow < s/o >.
send in Delta and break them out . Kill any and all that oppose . Sink the Pueblo on the way out .
Prepare for all out war . Let’s get this over with .
Here’s a perfect excuse
Its a quagmire, Obama’s fault.
Hmm... maybe we need to encourage more of our journalists to visit North Korea.