The news of Laura Ling and Euna Lee’s pardon and homecoming was good news today. Very good news indeed. I can’t help but wonder why North Korea requested Former President Bill Clinton to go. Washington D.C. says he went as a private citizen on a private humanitarian mission, no messages from Obama, but I am pretty sure that private diplomatic talks probably came up while he was in North Korea. It would be so tempting; to finally have the chance for direct talks with the leaders of North Korea. And with Asians, it’s all about keeping “face.” No doubt the request for Former Clinton was also in a way to make it into a show of North Korea doing a favor to the USA by pardoning the journalists.
Maybe we’ll find out in a few days time what really happened in North Korea. But until then, the photos that I have seen of the happy reunion of the journalists with their families have brought tears to my eyes. I would never wish their situation upon others. To be separated from your loved ones and be completely clueless on what your future would hold ... all in a foreign and hostile place.
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