US journalists’ trial begins in North Korea this week
— trial for U.S. journalist Laura Ling and Euna Lee to begin this week in North Korea.
— AP: “North Korean guards detained Laura Ling and Euna Lee, reporters for former Vice President Al Gore’s Current TV media venture, at the northeastern border with China on March 17. Activists who helped organize their trip say they had been reporting on North Korean women and children who fled to China for an uncertain life as refugees.”
— “two American journalists seized nearly three months ago face a trial this week in Pyongyang on charges that could land them in one of the country’s notorious labor camps.”