First, glad the two journalist have been released. But let’s not take the bait that Bill Clinton “did it”, he didn’t.

“CNN) — Two U.S. journalists who had been detained by North Korea were traveling back to the United States with former President Clinton hours after being pardoned, a Clinton spokesman said.
Former President Clinton meets Tuesday with North Korea leader Kim Jong Il.

“They are en route to Los Angeles [California] where Laura and Euna will be reunited with their families,” said spokesman Matt McKenna.

Doug Ling, Laura’s father, reacted to the news outside his home in Carmichael, California, with, “One of the best days in my life … I figured, sooner or later, they’d be back.”

In Los Angeles, family friend Wally Yang said the Ling family had “done everything they could, while respecting the North Korean government, to try and get Laura home.”

He predicted that Ling would remain a journalist. “Despite this terrifying experience, I can’t imagine that Laura would give up her passion to tell stories that otherwise wouldn’t be heard.”

Their release Wednesday came after Clinton met with top government officials in Pyongyang.

“Clinton expressed words of sincere apology to Kim Jong II for the hostile acts committed by the two American journalists against the DPRK after illegally intruding into it,” the news agency reported. “Clinton courteously conveyed to Kim Jong Il an earnest request of the U.S. government to leniently pardon them and send them back home from a humanitarian point of view.

“Hostile acts”? Well if one calls reporting on the ongoing genocide of Kim Jong II’s regime, then call me hostile. As you know I’ve been married to a Korean for 26 years, and I am well familiar with the conditions inside the North. Put it this way, when the truth comes out, the regmine will make Stalin’s and Hilter’s look pale in comparison.

Color me disgusted.

Technorati Tags: ,