Horrible

Have you heard about how Lisa Ling's sister & friend were caught by North Korea? Well, they were sentenced. To 12 years in a labor camp. How horrible is that. One of the women have a 4 year old daughter!!

From CNN -
Two U.S. journalists, who were detained in North Korea while covering the plight of defectors living along the China-North Korea border, have been sentenced to 12 years hard labor in prison, the country's state-run media said Monday.

Demonstrators in South Korea last week hold pictures of Laura Ling and Euna Lee.

The Central Court of North Korea sentenced Laura Ling and Euna Lee for the "grave crime they committed against the Korean nation and their illegal border crossing," the Korean Central News Agency said.

As a result, the court sentenced the women to "12 years of reform through labor."

They are going to try to send Gov Richardson over there because he was an ambassador to N. Korea in the past - Richardson served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and energy secretary during the Clinton administration and has maintained contacts with North Korea. He took several trips there as ambassador, and he has worked for the release of people held by the North Koreans in the past.

So horrible!