North Korean Humanitarians
Two U.S. journalists were sentenced to 12 years in North Korea’s labor prisons inside this secretive country. Trumped up charges and a kangaroo court are the latest ploy of this communist country hell-bent on continuing to capture and hold the world’s attention.
Laura Ling and Euna Lee were sentenced for the “grave crime they committed against the Korean nation and their illegal border crossing.” Whatever that’s supposed to mean. They just happened to be in the wrong place at the right time, ripe for the picking and used as collateral to help bolster the North Korean’s warped agenda of having some sort of political significance in this region.
The prison sentences that were imposed on these two journalists will now add another degree of difficulty to any impending negotiations regarding the recent launching of North Korea’s rockets and nuclear tests. This is certainly nothing more than a ruse to secure their release through concessions from the West and somehow legitimize the self-perceived power of this communist government.
A negotiated release for the Americans is all but assured, it’s in North Korea’s best interest. When they are released North Korean authorities will remind the world what great humanitarians they are while at the same time working in a state of malevolence to create a weapon that is anything but humanitarian.
