This week, in the moments I am not asking questions and contemplating the next big step …I’ve been thinking of what I would have once considered an unimaginable fate.
It’s been at least three days since headlines translated a frightening fate for two American Journalists.
I don’t know about you but I haven’t seen much about 32-year-old Laura Ling and 36-year-old Euna Lee since it was announced they’d spend twelve years in a North Korean labor camp.
According to a journalism festival website, where Ling was scheduled to appear, the two journals were arrested while filming near the North Korea-China border.
The site states: "The two journalists, together with a cameraman and a guide, were headed to the town of Yanji where they planned to interview women forced into prostitution, according to sources.
Laura Ling was due to appear at the International Journalism Festival on Saturday 04 April as part of the presentation of the Current US Vanguard journalism unit."
The website goes on to share: "Laura Ling currently serves as Vice President of Current TV’s Vanguard Journalism unit, the network’s journalism division dedicated to covering global issues that are relevant to young adult audiences. Ling also serves as an on-air correspondent for Current TV. She has covered subjects including the avian flu crisis in Asia, slave labor in the Brazilian Amazon, China’s booming sex industry and marijuana cultivation in California’s national forests. Prior to joining Current in 2005, Ling worked as a series producer for Channel One News where she produced reports from over two-dozen countries. She has posed as a tourist in North Korea, covered underground youth culture in Iran and interviewed the leaders of the United Wa State Army in Myanmar—one of the largest armed drug trafficking organizations in the world. Ling co-created Breaking it Down, a documentary series on MTV that aired between 1999 and 2001. Her work has also appeared on ABC's Nightline, NBC, PBS and the WB."
Busting rocks in a labor camp for twelve years? I wonder.... I did find this interview and thought I'd share the link in case you wanted to read that. It's pretty incredible.
Where do they sleep? How often do they get to sleep? Why are they being punished? What story were they on? AND twelve years may be the longest assignment ever….
More questions continue for me. Why? From what I’m reading in the New York Times, there is one indication they inadvertently crossed the North Korean border…however the only headlines I’m seeing as of late, talk of US and China sanctioning.
It goes on and on. But this is what I think of today.
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