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June 9, 2009

Clinton Criticizes N. Korea for Secretly Trying US Journalists
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday the Obama administration
is concerned about the two American journalists being held in North
Korea and that they should be freed. The journalists, Euna Lee and Laura
Ling of Current TV, were arrested in March working on a story near the
border between North Korea and China. They have been sentenced to twelve
years of hard labor in a prison camp.

Hillary Clinton: “Obviously, we are deeply concerned about the length of
the sentences and the fact that this trial was conducted totally in
secret with no observers. And we’re engaged in all possible ways,
through every possible channel, to secure their release, and we once
again urge North Korea to grant their immediate release on humanitarian
grounds.”



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