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What Were Laura Ling And Euna Lee Looking For In North Korea?

13 August 2009 991 views No Comment Tags: , , ,

The Women’s Media Center Exclusive Provides Answers

 

Like many of you, I am sure, I kept wondering as I read about the American journalists who were arrested by North Korea, tried, sentenced and finally released, what prompted these two women to leave their families (especially a young child) to venture to the Korean peninsula to follow a story. What was the story they were pursuing?

In all the coverage of their chilling circumstances I found no answer to that question. Until this week when I read the dramatic, detailed, and well documented background report by another courageous woman, Ji-Yeon Yuh a Korean American scholar, writer, and activist who is also working to uncover underground criminal human trafficking operations.

Ji-Yeon Yuh’s article “What Were Laura Ling and Euna Lee Looking For in North Korea?” is on The Women’s Media Center website. Read it and be informed.
And outraged.

Click here to read the article

The Women’s Media Center (WMC) was founded in 2005 as a non-profit progressive women’s media organization by writers/activists Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem. WMC makes women visible and powerful in the media.

The Women’s Media Center (WMC)
http://www.womensmediacenter.com/index.html


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