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As journalists (particularly investigative--and one whom in the eyes of the North Koreans terribly slandered the Great Leader Kim Jong il through a National Geographic documentary recently), with an unmistakeable mission to tell the outside world about nasty things that are hidden by men, if they have spent even one hour in one of those DPRK labor-reform camps and witnessed things with their own eyes, they are as dead as meat. They CAN NOT be released to tell the story. They will be either be drugged and brainwashed into Manchurian Candidates, or will somehow meet mysterious, unconfirmed deaths. I think this is what the families of these two women must now consider. I urge them to contact the families of Japanese who have had their relatives there for 15 or 20 years, to give them perspective. "Just because they are Americans" does not mean they move to the front of the line under that regime and get out in a couple of weeks with a deal cut by Bill Richardson. This is alltogether a different thing up there.