North Korea Says Two Filmed Their Illegal Entry

[AyatollahGondola]

NKorea: 2 US journalists filmed illegal crossing

http://www.sacbee.com/state_wire/story/1950346.html

The reporting team from Current TV crossed the frozen Tumen River dividing North Korea and China three months ago and walked up the river bank - all the while recording their transgression, the official Korean Central News Agency said.

"We've just entered a North Korean courtyard without permission," the Korean translation of their narration on the videotape said, according to KCNA. One of them picked up and pocketed a stone as a memento of the illegal move, the report said.

[Coso Kid]

Why would anyone want to sneak into NORTH KOREA?

No jobs, no welfare, people starving, totalitarian government, crazy dictator has nukes as well as caviar.

No red carpet rolled out by employers if you get across the river and through the desert, no multiculturalist media to laud illegal accomplishment nor minority racist lawmakers to push social services on the presumptuous territorial offender. No migratory "catch and release".

Nor any soft headed politicians babbling about "contributions" to North Korea by virtue of illegal entry.

Twelve years of hard labor?

Screw them. They knew better, and their plight shouldn't influence international stare downs. They brought it on themselves.

[AyatollahGondola]

I suspect that they mused it would be quite a story to show how easily a border can be breached in even the most totalitarian of nations. Perhaps they were doing a story about borders as opposed to one about North Korea

[AyatollahGondola]

If you haven't kept up on this saga, the latest news might be a bit unsettling to people in the border security arena.

Laura Ling spoke on the radio yesterday during an interview, and said she sees little hope of her sisters release, unless the US Government gets involved and asks for Amnesty for having broken North Korean law on crossing into NK without permission.
This could be a tear jerker for some, because it conjures up the image of an American being held by another country for breaching its' borders under self-described noble purposes. See the connection?