2 jailed journalists pardoned

PeppyGPhiB · #1 08-05-2009, 08:49 PM

While it's great that these women are home, I hope "journalists" and other naive Americans who want to be heroes learn from the experience and don't just expect to get bailed out by the former Prez when they, too, get caught. Fact is they shouldn't have been there - they broke the law, and the North Korean government was totally within their rights to punish the women however they saw fit.

AOII_LB93 · #2 08-05-2009, 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

While it's great that these women are home, I hope "journalists" and other naive Americans who want to be heroes learn from the experience and don't just expect to get bailed out by the former Prez when they, too, get caught. Fact is they shouldn't have been there - they broke the law, and the North Korean government was totally within their rights to punish the women however they saw fit.

I've actually been reading that they were on the Chinese side of the border when they were caught/take prisoner and they were forced to say that they had sneaked in to NK. That wouldn't surprise me in the least.