Lisa Ling Hears from Sister Held in North Kor...

Lisa Ling Hears from Sister Held in North Korea

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Posted 6 months ago by Queenoftab
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Lisa Ling received an unexpected call and got "tremendous relief" when her sister Laura – who has been detained in North Korea – was on the line Tuesday night.

"It was only the first time I have heard her voice in weeks," Ling said in an interview with KOVR in Sacramento, Calif. "That silence has been just so terrifying and deafening."

The phone call comes a month after Ling, a journalist working for Current TV, and her friend Euna Lee were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor for "their illegal border crossing," the Korean Central News Agency reported in June.

"[Laura] said, `We are doing okay. We`re being treated well and don`t worry about us. We had access to physicians,`" added Ling. "We just hope that`s true."

Laura "was very specific about the message she was communicating," Ling told the local TV station. "She said, `Look, we violated North Korean law and we need our government to help us. We`re sorry about everything that happened but now we need diplomacy.` "

The women were arrested by North Korean military on the Chinese border March 17 where they were researching a story about refugees in the area.
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posted by mary
they were pulled over the north korean border illegally since n koreans had nuclear tests and didn`t want reporters to get wind of the info
posted 5 months ago

 
 
posted by nana112213
too bad superman of global warming(al Gore can use some of his contacts and his millions to hasten the return of the people who were working for HIS tv station-I quess he too busy saving the planet to focus on 2 damase in dist
posted 5 months ago

 
 
posted by Sue Rocky Point, NY
I SO agree, where is the US government? Will these women be held in North Korea for the next 12 years without SOMEONE taking action? With all of Lisa`s contacts, I would think that they might somehow have been some progress in this case. Real criminals, huh? We have murderers getting out of prison here in the US after half that time.......
posted 5 months ago

 
 
posted by chonwu
its really terrifik that the govt they worked for can t be of aid to them now
posted 5 months ago


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