[Kyodo: Korea] China on Thursday denied accounts by two U.S. journalists jailed for illegally entering North Korea that they were seized on Chinese territory by North Korean troops. ""According to the understanding of relevant departments, such a situation as described by you did not happen,"" Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said at a news conference when asked about the accounts by Laura Ling and Euna Lee. The two were sentenced to 12 years hard labor by the North before being freed last month when former U.S. President Bill Clinton traveled to Pyongyang.