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N Korea treats journalists 'well'
The United States says it has received assurances from North Korea that two American journalists who were detained there last week will be treated well.
Well I guess that's all right then. Algore can rest easy.
The journalists are believed to have been on the Chinese side of the border when North Korean guards arrested them and took them back to North Korea. The US had initially accepted media reports that the two were being interrogated for espionage, but later clarified that the US understood the two are being investigated for illegal entry of North Korea.

The two who have been identified as Euna Lee, a Korean-American, and Laura Ling, a Chinese-American, who work for Current TV in California.

"The North has assured us that the detainees will be well treated," a US government spokesman, Robert Wood, told reporters. "We have formally requested, through our protecting power in Pyongyang, the Swedish embassy, that the Swedish government be provided with consular access to these two Americans," Mr Wood said.

In Seoul, a South Korean daily, the JoongAng Ilbo, said on Tuesday that North Korean intelligence officials are questioning the journalists and would probably try to persuade them to confess to spying. Quoting a South Korean intelligence source, the paper said the pair were transported to a top-security guest-house on the outskirts of Pyongyang a day after they were seized before dawn on 17 March along the border with China.

State Department officials said they do not know where the pair are being detained.
Good work, Team O!

Posted by: Seafarious 2009-03-27
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