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Clinton meets two US journalists detained in DPRK
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-08-05 04:09
WASHINGTON: Former US president Bill Clinton on Tuesday met with two American woman journalists detained in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) hours after his arrival in Pyongyang, ABC News reported. Clinton's meeting with Laura Ling and Euna Lee, both sentenced by the DPRK's highest court in June to 12 years in a labor camp for an illegal border crossing, is "very emotional," ABC News quoted an unidentified government source as saying.
Pyongyang had no diplomatic relations with Washington so far. Clinton is the highest-profile American to visit the DPRK after his own secretary of state Madeleine Albright met with DPRK top leader Kim Jong-il in 2000. The two American journalists, who worked for the San Francisco- based Current TV co-founded by former US vice president Al Gore, were captured on March 17 for allegedly crossing the DPRK border from China and committing "hostile actions" against the country. |