Ramblings of the Eternally Bored

When I heard the teaser on the news saying two American female journalists were taken into custody by the North Koreans, my first thought was "I bet it's Laura Ling". Sure enough, when they came back with the story, Laura Ling and Euna Kim were the journalists. Whenever I see Laura Ling on Current TV, her reports are great. She'll be reporting from the Kurdistan/Turkey border about the ongoing civil war or something like that. She seems like a throwback to when journalists actually do some journalism. Nowadays, you get an Iraqi camera crew to go out and film some local destruction, then the "journalists" will so their voice overs from a safe and secure spot in a heavily fortified zone miles away. Current TV gives a lot of great "boots on the ground" reporting. Laura and Euna were filming on the border about the refugees fleeing the oppresive regime of North Korea to head for China. (how bad to things have to be for you to choose to live in China? Seems like trading on oppresive dictatorship for another) Tensions between the US and North Korea are pretty high right now, so I hope this can be resolved quickly, and get the women out of there.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/5016053/North-Korea-detains-two-US-journalists.html