Sep 02, 2009 -
"Most of the North Koreans we spoke with said they were fleeing poverty and food shortages. One girl in her early 20s said she had been told she could find work in the computer industry in China. After being smuggled across the Tumen River, she found herself working with computers, but not in the way she had expected.
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Aug 05, 2009 -
Now that Bill Clinton has helped bring journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling home safely from North Korea, prominent politicos are speaking out against the way the release was handled. Appearing on Fox News today, former Clinton adviser Dick Morris argued that negotiating with North Korea gives the rogue state "an opportunity to rehabilitate its image globally simply to get two reporters out of jail."
Former UN ambassador John Bolton makes a similar argument that the trip is a "propaganda victory for North Korea," claiming that involving dignitaries like Clinton could create more danger to Americans in the future.
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Aug 05, 2009 -
- Journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee arrived home in California this morning, accompanied by former President Bill Clinton. — CNN
- A man who opened fire in a Pennsylvania gym last night, killing four, apparently kept a website chronicling his years of rejection by women. — AP
- President Obama has unveiled a $2.4 billion grant program for electric cars.
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Aug 04, 2009 -
North Korea has pardoned American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who might return to the US with former president Bill Clinton tonight. Clinton arrived in North Korea earlier today to negotiate the release of the American journalists. He met with the country's communist leader Kim Jong Il.
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Aug 04, 2009 -
- Bill Clinton has arrived in North Korea to negotiate the release of American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee. He reportedly met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il today. — Huffington Post
- The number of Americans on antidepressants has doubled over the last decade to a total of 27 million.
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Jul 27, 2009 -
North Korea doesn't merely have beef with the US government — it's also taken issue with America's most iconic food: the hamburger. Although the communist regime and its authoritarian leader, Kim Jong-Il, have long banned any cultural influences considered to be "US imperialist," the country opened its first-ever fast-food restaurant last month. The only thing that won't be served?
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Jul 13, 2009 -
She's baaaack! Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been out of the spotlight after breaking her elbow in June, but she came back to the stage on Friday to hold a town hall for State Department employees — and she didn't take the weekend off from diplomacy either, appealing to North Korea for the release of American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee. Hillary said the two reporters expressed great remorse and that "everyone is very sorry that it happened."
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Jun 25, 2009 -
- North Korea continues to threaten to attack the US, today promising a "fire shower of nuclear retaliation" if the US attacks it first. — Fox News
- Romantic emails between Gov. Mark Sanford and his lover in Argentina have been released.
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Jun 08, 2009 -
- North Korea has convicted American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee of crimes against the nation. They have been sentenced to 12 years in a labor camp. — Washington Post
- The Supreme Court declines to take up a case challenging the Army's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.
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