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| US voices concern about seizure of American journalists by North Korea |
| 2009-03-20 |
 The US has expressed concern to North Korea after its border guards detained two American journalists along the frontier with China, the State Department said Thursday. The incident comes amid rising tensions in the region as Pyongyang prepares a long-range rocket launch for early next month. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #15 Sounds like a political-rehab opportunity for Bill "El Jefe" Richardson. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2009-03-20 19:12 |
| #14 Oh, no! They will eat them! |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2009-03-20 16:13 |
| #13 Two liabilities, comin' up! |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2009-03-20 15:27 |
| #12 Plenty more where they came from. |
| Posted by: mojo 2009-03-20 11:12 |
| #11 Learning the hard way that there's some people in this world that just don't fuck around, eh, girls? Heed the lesson... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-03-20 10:53 |
| #10 US voices concern about seizure of American journalists by North Korea Cause we don't know what they may be 'carrying', best to use full medical isolation to avoid catching anything nasty. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-03-20 10:45 |
| #9 Trade 'em, hell; given them those two as an interest payment. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2009-03-20 09:46 |
| #8 Could we trade 'em for Keith Overbite and Tweety Matthews? |
| Posted by: William Marcy Tweed 2009-03-20 09:40 |
| #7 The Norks definitely crossed into China to seize the two. The Norks are NOT the US Border Patrol. If the Cinese don't raise a stink, then legal niceties are just that, niceties. Paranoid, Xenophobic and Stalinist are the words I would use to describe them. |
| Posted by: ed 2009-03-20 09:27 |
| #6 But ed, if they'd stayed on the Chinese side of the border, how could the North Koreans put hands on them? If the journalists stepped across the border, though... |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-03-20 09:11 |
| #5 They were taking photos from the Chinese side and ignored Nork border guards warnings. |
| Posted by: ed 2009-03-20 09:02 |
| #4 They were probably screwing around, doing something really stupid on the border. I can't see the norks acting without being triggered. |
| Posted by: gromky 2009-03-20 08:55 |
| #3 "Journalists" from Gore's channel? is this like "red on red"? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2009-03-20 08:01 |
| #2 Time to oil the hinges on the Gorebot. The journalists were making a film for Current TV. This is scary bad mojo because Kimmie has just got himself a pair of gen-u-wine Grade A human shields. Could this be part of the test that Joe Biden promised us? Bush never ransomed any American hostages, and as a result I believe fewer were taken. Team Obama may take a different view, and as a result it would become open season on Americans 'round the globe. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2009-03-20 01:10 |
| #1 TOPIX > US: NORTH KOREA COULD FIRE SEVERAL MISSLES AT ONCE, + JAPAN [Navy/MSDF] PREPARES TO SHOOT DOWN NORTH KOREAN MISSLE. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-03-20 00:53 |