Two seized journalists now become North Korean “bargaining chips”

If you remember the story last week when two American journalists were seized by North Korean soldiers, there may be even more to the inicident. According to the Washington Post, these two woman are now likely to become bargaining chips for North Korea in its feuds with the outside world, according to analysts and politicians in South Korea.

Laura Ling and Euna Lee, reporters working for Al Gore’s San Francisco-based Current TV, were seized at 3 a.m. March 17 after walking from China across the shallow Tumen River into North Korea, according to a report in JoongAng Ilbo, a newspaper in Seoul.

The newspaper, citing intelligence sources in the South Korean government, said the two women have been moved to Pyongyang, North Korea’s capital, where they were being interrogated as possible spies.

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March 30, 2009 · Filed Under North Korea


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