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  • Scholar: NKorea wants US show of remorse

    07/11/2009 1:59:35 PM PDT · by don-o · 21 replies · 671+ views
    AP =-Yahoo News ^ | July 11, 2009 | HYUNG-JIN KIM
    SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea wants the U.S. to show remorse for the actions of two American journalists convicted of illegally entering the country, and it might free the women if Washington does so, a scholar who visited Pyongyang said Saturday. The comments by North Korean officials to University of Georgia political scientist Han S. Park came as analysts say the isolated communist regime intends to use the detention of Laura Ling and Euna Lee as bargaining chips in its ongoing standoff with Washington over the country's nuclear and missile threats. The journalists were detained in March near the...