Two journalists from the emmy award winning Current TV were detained Tuesday by North Korean soldiers after they ignored their orders to stop filming. Laura Ling and Euna Lee are reporters for the San Francisco based media outlet and were planning a border trip to report on North Korean refugees. The Yalu river they were headed towards is a ‘frequent crossing point for both trade and the growing number of North Koreans seeking to flee their country’ as reported by Kwang-Tae Kim. Ling’s sister, Lisa Ling, was a cohost on the View and currently does field reports for Oprah. The last correspondence from Ling was a Twitter message stated that she was at the Seoul airport headed to the China/NKorea border and, ‘Hoping my Kimchee breath will ward off all danger.’ A third member of their team, the cameraman, was said to have escaped arrest at the last moment. Read more...
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While we were surfing through profiles on the singles site, Asian2date.com, we found a profile that proved to be a very compelling and sweet video testimonial. We wondered how it could receive such little attention and how many single woman actually replied to this heartbroken old man. Is it really that hard to find love in a country where people are starving and dying?
But the real question is what were we doing on Asian2date.com?
Exactly.
It takes a real man to cry on camera, even if it is a webcam.
The other day we had lunch with former executive director of LINK, Adrian Hong. Liberty in North Korea (LINK) is a non-profit organization which creates awareness about the suffering and torturing thats happening in North Korea. It was absolutely mind blowing to hear about the concentration camps, the inequality of human rights, and the oppression thats happening RIGHT NOW in North Korea. Currently there are dozens of camps that hold over 200,000 citizens including children where they are forced to do such things like biochemical experiments and forced manual labor. THIS IS KIDS WE’RE TALKING ABOUT. WTF! Remember Schindler’s List, well swap out the Jews and put in Koreas. Oh and its not 1944, like 60 years ago, its today. TODAY! Read more...
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