In other news...

[akujunkan]

...the DPRK just sentenced Laura Ling and Euna Lee to 12 years of hard labor.

Anyone who cares to know what this means might want to take a look at these books.

Also, Jesus. My thoughts are with Ling, Lee, and their families.

That will be all.

Comments

[bran420-7.livejournal.com]

They manipulated the hard to define territory/border in the area, to further their quest for concessions to their nuclear testing. Using those poor women as pawns to continue intimidating South Korea while holding them as political prisoners to dissuade the US from signing onto increased sanctions. Don't sign, get the women home.

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

I dunno. I think the problem is that North Korea's going to keep on pushing the envelop whether or not Ling and Lee are released.

I mean, there isn't anything we can give them that they *want* (aside from bilateral relations, and that's a nightmare not worth thinking about).

[bran420-7.livejournal.com]

Perhaps. Maybe he's jealous of Castro. Maybe he longs for the same thaw. He is abnormally obsessed with US culture.