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Here's a snippet from the Huffington Post:

SEOUL, South Korea — Two American journalists detained by North Korean soldiers are believed to have been sent to Pyongyang for questioning, a news report said Sunday.

North Korea said Saturday it was investigating two Americans it detained Tuesday for "illegally intruding" into its territory after crossing the border from China.

A brief dispatch from the North's official Korean Central News Agency gave no other details, but it was apparent confirmation of reported arrests of two female U.S. journalists reporting on North Korean refugees in the border area.

South Korean media and a South Korean missionary identified the two detained Americans as Laura Ling and Euna Lee, reporters for former Vice President Al Gore's San Francisco-based media outlet Current TV.

A U.S. official said Saturday that the U.S. has been in touch with North Korean representatives about the journalists and is awaiting a reply. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity citing the sensitivity of the issue, said the U.S. doesn't know where the North is holding them.

South Korea's Yonhap news agency said Sunday, in a report from the Chinese city of Yanji, that it is highly likely that they were sent to Pyongyang to be investigated for their alleged border intrusion.

"Considering the significance of the case, there is a high possibility that the two U.S. journalists have been sent to Pyongyang and are undergoing a direct investigation" by the North's spy agency and military, Yonhap quoted a source in China it described as privy to North Korean affairs.

Yonhap quoted other sources in China as saying the North's confirmation of the arrest appeared to demonstrate that Pyongyang's intelligence and military headquarters are directly interrogating the journalists.

Full article here.

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I just happened to see this on the "View". Lisa Ling hasn't bee on that show in years, she went on to do other things (mostly women rights issues and human trafficking). I recognized Laura Ling from Current TV but didn't think the two were related. Don't know how I manage to not make the connection, they look very similar.

Back to the topic. I can't even imagine what they're going through right now, but what really angers and disgusts me the most is what people are saying about the women's situation. What people are saying on the Huffington Post website is nice compared to what I've read on other news sites.

There were actually people who said that they deserved it. That it should serve to remind them of the rights they have as an American. I can go on with the absurd things people were saying. The majority of what these people are saying doesn't even make sense. What in their mind makes them think that Ling and Lee aren't aware of how bless they are about their rights? They're journalists for God's sake. It's their job to find the truth and expose it. To dig and find stories to bring to share with the world that otherwise might not be heard of. If it wasn't for people like these two women these idiotic people wouldn't even know what's happening in their own back yard.

No one deserves to be held against their will. They were just doing their job. Whether they had taken all the necessary precautions I don't know. I wasn't there with them. But to say such things is just down right disgusting. What kind of people would say such a thing about another human being? Do you have so much hate in your heart that you wish others to suffer? People you don't even know. People who've done nothing to you.

     There's something about this song, I can't tell if it's the lyrics, the melody or the video, maybe all of it that makes me feel...I'm not sure what it makes me feel. Lonely isn't quite the right word.