Freed journalists leave North Korea
Current TV journalists Laura Ling, and Euna Lee have returned to the United States after former US president Bill Clinton secured their release from a North Korean jail on a visit to Pyongyang.
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Clinton arrives in North Korea
Former US President Bill Clinton has arrived in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, amid an international stand off over the country’s nuclear programme and the jailing of two US journalists. Clinton will try to negotiate the release of Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who were sentenced to 12 years hard labour in June. They were found guilty of entering North Korea across the Chinese border in March.
North Korea jails US journalists
A court in North Korea has sentenced Euna Lee and Laura Ling, two US journalists to 12 years according to state media. Read more here
Trial of journalists begins in North Korea
Euna Lee and Laura Ling, the two US journalists arrested in North Korea earlier in March this year, are reported to have gone on trial in North Korea for charges of committing “hostile acts”. The US has dismissed the charges as “baseless”. Read more here